Rizwan Hisham
2007-May-22 02:32 UTC
[asterisk-users] Why 2 branches of asterisk development?
Hi all, i never understood that why is there 2 branches of asterisk going on parallel. asterisk 1.2.* and asterisk 1.4.*, i also heard about beginning of another branch which will be 1.6.*. so whats the difference between these 2 or 3 versions, can anybody plz tel me? -- Rizwan Hisham Software Engineer AXVOICE Inc. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20070522/93093b0a/attachment.htm
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style="font-size:10pt;">Because there is a huge install base on 1.2
which is fairly stable but still needs bug fix/security patches. There are no
new features being developed by the code group on this version, but there are
outside people who are still modifying it.</SPAN></div>
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<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;">1.4 has many new
features and some areas re-written. This makes the code base less stable but
usable. The feature set is complete for this therefore, it was released. Now
it is up to us bold souls to verify it works. At some time, when the 1.2 base
starts to wane, I would see the 1.2 going away, just not
now.</SPAN></div>
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<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;">1.6 is where new
development/features are being planed. I hope they finally write the SIP stack
so it lines up with the SIP specification instead of being a adjunct to the IAX
code. I am not looking for SER type functionality but better performance and
support for things like CallInfo messages being passed from Origin to
Destination.</SPAN></div>
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<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;">On the whole, most
proprietary software companies support their older versions. Microsoft has
patches being developed for versions back to Windows 2000.<br /><br
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<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:navy;">> Hi
all,</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:navy;">> i never
understood that why is there 2 branches of asterisk
going</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:navy;">> on
parallel. asterisk 1.2.* and asterisk 1.4.*, i also heard
about</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:navy;">>
beginning of another branch which will be 1.6.*. so whats
the</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:navy;">>
difference between these 2 or 3 versions, can anybody plz tel
me?</SPAN></div>
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