Hi, Il 18/04/2012 00:39, Kevin P. Fleming ha scritto:
You guys know that it works in Asterisk 10, but you say you can't use Asterisk 10 for some reason that I don't understand.
1) No Debian packages for v10. If you have to maintain lots of servers, installing from sources is a big burden. Compile, install and forget isn't the way I work: if I have to apply a fix or close a security hole I can easily push the patches to my build server which will recompile all the branches I maintain, then every server will automatically upgrade with cron jobs.
2) A new whole of problems when upgrading production machines from a working 1.8.x to v10. That will mean parsing configs manually, find the problems and fixing them.
3) Third parties utilities/hardware/modules. I'm still waiting for a fix for my Sangoma BRI card which did broke when upgrading... You need a compatible version of third parties components to use recent versions of asterisk/dahdi/whatever and upgrading third parties components does always mean problems.
4) Isn't v10 supposed to be "beta"/non-production/non-long-term-support?[1] If we want to honor what Digium says we should use 1.8 for production servers when reliability is important. Backporting a single "unstable" feature is much better than the whole thing.
5) What was the purpose of the t38gateway-1.8 branch? Why did it existed at all if not to allow users to use t38 gw in production servers? I even read about the possibility to backport t38 gw to 1.8 as a plugin, but it seems it isn't a requested feature (which is strange because I know peoples who stopped using asterisk because of the lack of t38 gw).
I really don't want to do polemics: I always used pstn for the faxes until now and I will keep using it. No problem.
Cheers, Niccolò [1]https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Proposed+changes+to+Asterisk+release+and+support+cycles -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
