Re: [Bayonne-devel]Re: GNOME "Telephony Application Programming Services" Proposed

[David Sugar <dyfet ostel com>]

Alan,

GNU Bayonne already does some of these same things as well and has done so for 
a number of years now in varied commercial, carrier class, and governmental 
settings.  It is also an integral part of the GNU system, and does some 
things that are distinctly different from Asterisk.  However, TAPS has 
nothing to do directly with being such a system.  TAPS is also not a 
softphone client.   Rather, TAPS is intended purely to standardize how we 
integrate such things like GNU Bayonne, Astreisk, or other common office 
telephony servers and systems, with common desktop applications (such as 
address books, contact management  systems, etc).  In that sense it services 
some of the same role as JTAPI, although in a manner far more directly usable 
in GNOME (through a C callable library), and both far simpler and more 
consistent with free software  development than JTAPI (or fully proprietary 
systems such as Microsoft TAPI) currently do this.

David

On Wednesday 05 February 2003 15:31, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > GNOME TAPS will offer a C callable library to easily integrate
> > > telephony functions into existing GNOME applications.  It will use a
> > > common TCP based backend protocol to communicate directly with office
> > > telephone equipment and services, and ideally for use with free
> > > software based telephone systems such as GNU Bayonne.  It will include
> > > an applet to pop-up and support handling of incoming calls.  It will
> > > include a gnome control-center plugin for setting of telephony options.
>
> Make sure you talk to the Asteriskpbx folks before you go and duplicate
> a ton of stuff, Asterisk already does PBX, voicemail, IP and non IP phone
> switching, codec conversions and a few other neat tricks, and its GPL
>
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