Re: [Astlinux-users] Asterisk and Zaptel 1.4

[Darrick H. <dha...@dj...>]

Matt Riddell (NZ) wrote:
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> Sorry if this is an obvious question, I haven't the time to check out
> trunk at the mo.
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> Anyone know if there's an AstLinux Environment with 1.4 's in it?
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> Or is the best way to go to simply update the versions of Asterisk in
> the build process from the dev environment?
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Matt,

Short answer is no.  Not at the moment. 

Long answer.  I'm working on releasing 0.4.5.  Kristian is working on 
some major structural changes in trunk (changes that are needed to make 
upgrading in the future easier).  After I get 0.4.5 out, I might have 
some time to take a look at what it will take to get 1.4.x to build in 
Astlinux.  It's on the radar and with 1.4.1 out, most of the bugs should 
be worked out.  It makes sense to have it included, but it will take 
some time as the patches for 1.2 will not just drop into place.  Some of 
them won't be needed and quite possibly some new ones will have to be 
added.  If you even look at the difference between the 0.4 branch and 
trunk, you'll see that there are several patches that Kristian has added 
that are not in 0.4, even though we're using the same version of 
Asterisk.  In trunk, he's looking at adding realtime support.  By 
realtime, we don't mean dynamic dialplans.  We mean faster interaction 
with the hardware.  This includes a realtime kernel and some other 
changes.  Believe it or not, that the minor change in trunk compared to 
some of the other changes.

If you wanted to get started, you could look at zaptel 1.4.  That may be 
an easier package than asterisk itself.  The big issue there will be the 
other packages that depend on zaptel (wanpipe and rhino).  Re-creating 
the patches required to get zaptel to build would be easier than what 
will be needed for asterisk.

Darrick

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