Pre-Review: Asterisk

[Matthias Saou]

David Woodhouse wrote :

> That was 4 months ago, and we still don't have Asterisk in Extras. :/

That's probably not unrelated to the ugliness of asterisk's building (have
you looked at the Makefiles? argh! ;-)), and the below discussion too.

> > So, until such time as the Zaptel drivers get into the stock kernel, I'd
> > like to have the drivers packaged separately.
> > 
> > Also, it is true that the Zaptel drivers are not required to run
> > Asterisk you lose some significant functionality, including meetme
> > conferences.
> 
> Is that still true? The only thing MeetMe uses zaptel for is timing,
> isn't it? Can't we just use POSIX timers or the RTC for this?

I recall installing asterisk for a colleague, where timing was required,
but I didn't have the right version of the zaptel modules for the running
kernel. I think he was able to have asterisk use part of the USB subsystem
for timing (!?) instead... anyway, it sounded weird at the time, and still
does :-/

In case if can be useful, I have some asterisk packages too, from which
some bits and pieces could maybe be reused :
http://svn.rpmforge.net/svn/trunk/rpms/asterisk/
http://svn.rpmforge.net/svn/trunk/rpms/asterisk-sounds/
http://svn.rpmforge.net/svn/trunk/rpms/zaptel/ (very messy...)

I really wish they'd switch to using autotools, though :-/

Matthias

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