[asterisk-dev] Unstable releases lately

[John Lange]

On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 11:03 -0600, Michael Grigoni wrote:
> <snip>
> Read the [asterisk-bsd] list awhile if you would like to get a feel for
> what hell is like in the greater unix asterisk space at the moment.
> Aside from little interest amongst core developers in the BSD communities,
> SVN certainly isn't canonical on most BSD or other Unix distributions.
> BSD users must rely on a port maintainer or individual efforts for
> handling every change that comes down the pike and frustration is
> rising to the level of discussions of forking or abandonment of the
> project.

I abandoned OpenBSD about 5 years ago due to frustration with the ports
tree. Even major software like Apache/PHP can often lag significantly
and god forbid you ever want to install something that isn't supported
in the tree.

John