[Freeswitch-dev] Linux or Windows?

[comments at freecle.com]

Comments and questions:

1.  I tried to compile with VC++ Express 2008, and got so many errors I
have not figured it out yet.

2.  The Trixswitch ico worked great right off ... much better than
Trixbox, which seemed to required a Microsoft-style activation code and
contact with the home office via internet before it would work.

3.  I am a hazy about the programming interface to Freeswitch ... is there
a tcp or udp socket to which I can just send commands?

4.  Also, it seems like trixswitch does not have the source code for
freeswitch in the ico... is that true?

5.  I would like to get a few hours of Anthony's time to film a code
walkthrough that could be posted on the website.

Thanks

Edward
Seattle




> Another consideration is that since our code is cross-platform, it has to
> have an abstraction layer to normalize some bits of code to be platform
> agnostic.
> One major issue with this is that oftentimes, when a function that is
> commonly used
> in UNIX is missing in windows, a poor substitute is written to fill in the
> void.
> This can lead to assumptions that it's robust when it isn't in the case of
> things
> like precision timing (many gettimeofday emulator functions are completely
> inaccurate
> and give the impression that the windows is not as good). We do our best
> to make
> sure we have it working on all platforms but to really succeed, we need
> the help of
> many people who regularly use each platform to test and provide feedback
> about their
> favorite platform.  For a high scale operation any variant of UNIX will be
> a better choice than windows from at least a cost standpoint since the
> version of windows that can take advantage of several CPUs is much more
> expensive than the regular version of windows and also if you plan to do
> any development, the free version of the compiler is not really so great
> so you will end up having to buy the MSVC 2008 as well.
>
> The most common used platform during core development is currently rhel4
> iirc which is more or less the same as centos4 the only reason for that
> choice is the particular dual-cpu box with onboard RAID I do my dev on
> only worked for RHEL due to silly binary drivers where something claims
> they support linux and only gives you a redhat rpm (but that's another
> rant).  Nonetheless, we move  around and test the code on all platforms we
> support, *but*, linux currently still receives the most total hours of dev
> time to date.
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> We do have many Windows users, so maybe they could chime in about how the
> Win32 experience is going for them.
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> Anthony Minessale II
>
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> AIM: anthm
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> iax:guest at conference.freeswitch.org/888
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> pstn:213-799-1400
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Ian Gregson <contact at iangregson.com>
> To: freeswitch-dev at lists.freeswitch.org
> Sent: Saturday, November 3, 2007 11:41:05 AM
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> I was wondering if anyone can offer any info with regards to
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>>From what i gather the freeswitch works on both ... so
> obious linux is free (opensuse i was thinking of.. maybe something
> better?)
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> But what about hardware support, i presume windows would
> have better hardware support?
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> Any info would be gratefully appreciated
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> Ian
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