asterisk-bristuff deprecation: what upgrade path ?

[Julien BLACHE]

Diego Iastrubni <diego.iastrubni at xorcom.com> wrote:

> Tzafrir is always telling me that the bristuff patch should be separated (well 
> not always, but lets say ... 18 months).

I've never understood why asterisk wasn't just patched with BRIstuff,
and why there was 2 packages to begin with. Is there anything a
vanilla Asterisk can do that a BRIstuffed Asterisk cannot ?

> How about we start doing this? Can anyone make a list of features available 
> only in the bristuff patch, and we can use it as a guide for our work in this 
> area? I assume that we want a series of 10-20 patches which will add 
> different functionalities to Asterisk (not only BRI support).

In my experience, splitting up the bristuff patch into smaller
patchsets can be a real pain.

As for the feature list, start with the applications added by the
BRIstuff patch, then there's the embedded chan_capi and the BRI
support. (is there anything else ? It's been a while since I last had
to read the BRIstuff patch)


(oh would it be nice if Digium could stop there ill-advised double
licensing shit with Asterisk, wouldn't it ?)

JB.

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