[asterisk-dev] pipes and commas: in asterisk.conf

[Tzafrir Cohen]

[checging the subject for better readability]

On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 10:05:16PM -0000, SVN commits to the Digium repositories wrote:
> Author: tilghman
> Date: Tue Jun  3 17:05:16 2008
> New Revision: 120171
> 
> URL: http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk?view=rev&rev=120171
> Log:
> Move compatibility options into asterisk.conf, default them to on for upgrades,
> and off for new installations.  

That is: those compatibility options have a compile-time default of
"on".

Not so nice if you write your own asterisk.conf .

Also:

> This includes the translation from pipes to commas
> for pbx_realtime and the EXEC command for AGI, as well as the change to the Set
> application not to support multiple variables at once.

[snip]

> Modified: trunk/Makefile
> URL: http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk/trunk/Makefile?view=diff&rev=120171&r1=120170&r2=120171
> ==============================================================================
> --- trunk/Makefile (original)
> +++ trunk/Makefile Tue Jun  3 17:05:16 2008
> @@ -687,6 +687,11 @@
>  		echo ";astctlowner = root" ; \
>  		echo ";astctlgroup = apache" ; \
>  		echo ";astctl = asterisk.ctl" ; \
> +		echo "" ; \
> +		echo "[compat]" ; \
> +		echo "pbx_realtime=1.6" ; \
> +		echo "res_agi=1.6" ; \
> +		echo "app_set=1.6" ; \

What is the meaning of this "compat" section? Will this be the only
comatibility issue we will ever have with pbx_realtime?

[snip]

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