[Asterisk-Dev] removing depreciated code?

[Steve Totaro]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rod Dorman" <rodd at polylogics.com>
To: "Asterisk Developers Mailing List" <asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2005 8:56 AM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Dev] removing depreciated code?


> On Saturday, September 24, 2005, 10:38:56, Steven wrote:
> > On Sat, 2005-09-24 at 11:12 +0200, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> >>  ...
> >> Backward compatibility is overrated
> >
> > Try telling that to a person who makes the upgrade and finds out they
> > have to re-tweak the ENTIRE dialplan to make it behave the way they had
> > it before.  I would much rather upgrade sections at a time where I can
> > fully test those sections before moving on. 
> 
> Indeed,  thru many painful lessons I've learned its better to change one
> thing at a time. Makes it a lot easier to figure out which change caused
> the problem.
> 
> Makes it a lot easier to fall back to a working configuration too.
> 

Ah yes, Step #4 of the Generall Problem Solving Model
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/cisintwk/itg_v1/tr1901.htm#12240