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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

On Saturday 24 March 2007 15:10:10 Martin Spitzbarth wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I've noticed that we have asterisk 1.2.17 in our grimoires. For now,
> upstream maintains both the 1.2 release and the newer 1.4 release. The
> changes from 1.2 to 1.4 are both in the build process and more
> importantly in the configuration files.
>
> The changes can be found in UPGRADE.txt in the 1.4.2 tarball or here:
> http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk/tags/1.4.2/UPGRADE.txt?view=markup
>
> I don't think it we should "auto upgrade" from 1.2 to 1.4. That
> might break some existing installations, or in other words: No phone
> calls until the admin has fixed the dialplans, scripts and so on.
>
> Would it make sense to
>   (a) make it a multi version spell
>   (b) split the spell in asterisk and asterisk14, or similar
> [ (c) upgrade to 1.4, because nobody uses that spell anyway? ]
>
> I don't promise that I will work on this spell within the next few
> weeks, but it would be nice to hear a few opinions about it, especially
> from people who seriously use asterisk in a production environment
> (I've just played with the VoIP capabilities of my all in one router and
> asterisk).
>
> Have a nice weekend
>
> Martin

If you're worried about breaking the old version, probably make a 
multi-version that defaults to what we currently have.

-sandalle

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