[Openh323-devel] H323plus CVS (continuance of OpenH323 development)

[Simon H. <s....@pa...>]

To All

I have completed the fork of the openh323_plugins branch of OpenH323 to the
h323plus CVS. There is a little bit more testing to do but we should have a
development release ready next week. The first development release will
begin at 1.19.5 (ptlib 1.12.0) to continue from where OpenH323 left off.

http://h323plus.cvs.sourceforge.net/h323plus/

Special Notes:
1. The repository only contains the h323plus library and applications. The
Ptlib library will be held in the OpalVoIP repository and I will be actively
supporting it's development however snapshots will be made available from
the h323plus website to avoid need to access both repositories. The same
applies to audio/video plugins which will be compatible with both projects.

2. Namespace changes
Linux: No name space changes the new library should drop straight in where
openh323 left off.
Windows: The library is now only a static h323plus.lib & h323plusd.lib and
the DLL build version has been dropped.

3. Large amount of house cleaning over existing openh323 with a lot of the
less important code depreciated. Note: LID support has been dropped. A
roadmap to add a plugin architecture is planned for the future.

3. The applications that will be actively maintained
OpenMCU (large development plans)
MyPhone2 (for windows)
OpenAM (DB backend to integrate with GnuGk for VoiceMail)
Simple
If there is any others that you would like supported please let me know.

4. GnuGk CVS already supports h323plus and numerous new features such as
LDAP, SNMP, H.460 NAT traversal, QoS reporting are available with the
h323plus library.

5. PacPhone will be migrating to h323plus so it will support app sharing and
MCU conference controls as of the next major release.

Hopefully migration for existing openh323 based applications should not be
too painful but provide a much broader array of features.

Feel free to contact me if you have any queries or join the h323plus mailing
list.

Simon

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Simon Horne
Principal Maintainer
h323plus library
www.h323plus.org

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