[Asterisk-Dev] moving sounds out of asterisk repository

[BJ Weschke]

On 1/12/06, Russell Bryant <russell at digium.com> wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>
> I would like propose an idea for how to move the sounds our of the main
> Asterisk repository.  I know that for those of us that have to make
> Asterisk checkouts constantly, it is pretty annoying to have to download
> them over and over.  This is inspired by ideas Josh Colp (file) proposed
> to me in IRC.
>
> 1) Move asterisk/sounds to asterisk-sounds/base/
>
> 2) Modify the Asterisk Makefile to check for the existence of the sounds
> directory.
>
> If it doesn't exist, check for ../asterisk-sounds.  If it exists, use
> svn to make sure it is up to date.  Then, 'ln -s ../asterisk-sounds/base
> sounds'.
>
> If it does not exist, do a 'svn co
> http://svn.digium.com/svn/asterisk-sounds/base sounds'.
>
> Of course, this only works with svn installed.  For a release, we would
> just include the sounds in the tarball.
>
> What do you think?
>

 +1 !

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