[asterisk-dev] ExternalIVR with sockets on release 1.6.2.0

[Mark Michelson]

David Ruggles wrote:
> Dan,
> 
> It's good to hear of someone starting to use ExternalIVR, it's one of
> the under-appreciated, less talked about, application in Asterisk ;-)
> 
> There are several known bugs and issues that have been fixed in Trunk.
> If this is a pure development server and it's not that big a deal the
> easiest path would probably be to use SVN trunk and then 1.8 as soon
> as it's branched and released. If not, then you'll need to make a
> series of modifications to app_externalivr.c to fix these bugs. Also,
> the documention, doc/externalivr.txt, has been updated in Trunk to be
> accurate and to include information about the changes and enhancements
> to externalivr.
> 
> You can see the list of changes here:
> http://svnview.digium.com/svn/asterisk/trunk/apps/app_externalivr.c?view=log
> 
> You would need to include the modifications back to revision 230438.
> 
> If you don't switch to trunk, trunk's version of the documentation can
> be found here:
> 
> http://svnview.digium.com/svn/asterisk/trunk/doc/externalivr.txt?view=markup
> 
> Please reply with any additional questions you may have.
> 
> David Ruggles

I would argue that if there are bugs that were fixed in app_externalivr in 
trunk, then those should have been ported to any release branches that also had 
the bugs.

Mark Michelson