From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============2621078136421167444==" MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Sebastian Mancke Subject: Re: DBus APIs Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 08:50:53 +0200 Message-ID: <4A0BBF4D.10901@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <200905131151.01568.denkenz@gmail.com> List-Id: To: ofono@ofono.org --===============2621078136421167444== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Denis, thanks for the direct answer. I don't wanted to be unfair at all ;-) I Will take a deeper look into the differences of both DBus APIs to get a better understanding of your reasons. Regards, Sebastian Denis Kenzior schrieb: > Hi Sebastian, > = > On Wednesday 13 May 2009 10:17:50 Sebastian Mancke wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I just saw the new project and was wondering why there is a completely >> new project for this purpose. >> >> For me, ofone looks very similar to the freesmartphone.org initiative. >> Did you take a deep look into other existing projects? What are your >> opinions not to join those efforts? > = > We had a very deep look actually, and not only freesmartphone, but also = > Qtopia. These projects are very similar to oFono on the surface, but the= ir = > APIs just do not fill our needs. E.g. to have a telephony stack that is = GCF- > certification ready and can be used by UI developers with minimal effort = on = > their part. > = > In the case of Qtopia it carries too much legacy baggage. In the case of = FSO: = > any API that exposes such low-level details as SMS DCS will never be good = > enough. UI developers simply should never have to care. > = >> In the case of freesmartphone.org I appreciate the goal of focusing on >> the design of the DBus APIs, instead of 'just' an implementation. It >> would be really cool to get alternative Implementations (e.g. written in >> C) for those APIs. On the other hand it would be too bad not to regard >> the experiences they made. > = > You're assuming that oFono developers do not have previous telephony = > experience themselves. Not a fair assumption at all ;) We have our own = ideas = > and as pointed out above, we did learn from the FSO project. > = > Regards, > -Denis > _______________________________________________ > ofono mailing list > ofono(a)ofono.org > http://lists.ofono.org/listinfo/ofono > = -- = tarent Gesellschaft f=C3=BCr Softwareentwicklung und IT-Beratung mbH Heilsbachstr. 24, 53123 Bonn | Poststr. 4-5, 10178 Berlin fon: +49(228) / 52675-0 | fon: +49(30) / 27594853 fax: +49(228) / 52675-25 | fax: +49(30) / 78709617 durchwahl: +49(228) / 52675-17 | mobil: +49(171) / 7673249 Gesch=C3=A4ftsf=C3=BChrer: Boris Esser, Elmar Geese HRB AG Bonn 5168 Ust-ID: DE122264941 --===============2621078136421167444==--