[asterisk-dev] Corydon76 Issue Deleted: 0006925, 04-28-06 17:49 Corydon76 Issue Deleted: 0006920

[Denis Smirnov]

On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 06:48:11AM -0500, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:

>> This moving helps to minimize duplicate code and improve API stability
>> without affecting development speed.
KPF> This is incorrect. As soon as 'struct ast_channel' is part of the
KPF> library's API (as it would have to be), then we cannot make changes to
KPF> the channel structure without having to increase library versions and
KPF> modifying all the modules to require that version. This will take
KPF> significant amounts of time.

Some modules doesn't need to work with this struct directly.

KPF> I don't see any value in having modules that are usable across Asterisk
KPF> versions in binary form; this is open source software, and nearly all
KPF> modules available for it should only need source-level compatibility,
KPF> not binary compatibility.

It need for linux distributions, for updating third part modules
independent with asterisk.

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