[asterisk-dev] Deprecation of cdr_mysql

[Mark Michelson]

On 07/11/2012 09:02 AM, Paul Belanger wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Olle E. Johansson <oej at edvina.net> wrote:
>> I must have missed the discussion - can someone please explain to me why cdr_mysql is marked as deprecated in 1.8?
>>
> It started with this review[1] and turned into this wiki page[2]
>
> Basically there is a better way to do it (ODBC) and nobody wanted to
> maintain the module.  After Asterisk 11 drops, I suspect you'll see
> some patches starting to remove some of the deprecated modules from
> source.
>
> [1] https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/1181/
> [2] https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Asterisk+Module+Support+States
>

Let me chime in and say that removing deprecated modules is unlikely to 
occur unless we have a suitable drop-in replacement that we are willing 
to support.

Mark Michelson