[asterisk-dev] gratuitous change in rev.48416 ?

[Luigi Rizzo]

On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 09:37:04AM -0600, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> > no problem, i was just trying to figure out what the policy is with
> > respect to zaptel versions, and hopefully make sure that it is NOT
> > 
> > 	"trunk only supports the latest zaptel"
> > 
> > because that would be unnecessarily restrictive.
> 
> In fact that IS the general policy. When we add functionality to Zaptel,
> we immediately add code to Asterisk to use that functionality. There
> WILL be cases where Asterisk trunk will be modified in such a way that
> it cannot be used with older versions of Zaptel, if it makes sense to do so.
> 
> I know this is not optimal for platforms that aren't supported in the
> main Zaptel distribution, but generally speaking that is incentive to
> get those platforms supported in the main Zaptel distribution :-)

so how about this: next time, put code in trunk that uses
functionalities not yet present even in the main zaptel distribution.
That would be a great incentive to have developers add those functions
to Zaptel :)

	cheers
	luigi