[Asterisk-Users] freebsd and asterisk ?? anyone yet

[Alastair Maw]

denon wrote:
> With regards to Asterisk on FBSD, I for one would love to see it 
> happen.  I prefer FreeBSD over Linux in almost every case.
> 
> However, personally I have a few concerns:
> 
> Namely, the primary developer is a Linux nut .. (sorry Mark, I mean that 
> in a good way :).  I'd hate to see development efforts get split up, and 
> more time spent on porting/etc efforts, detracting from primary 
> development.  If it's now slowing down new development, it's always a 
> step behind while someone patches up the current builds.

I keep meaning to sort out autoconf/automake stuff for Asterisk. I 
notice that Asterisk is GPLed, so there won't be any licensing issues. 
I'm quite surprised no one else has got round to it before.

Anyway, I have no time at the moment for this, but it'll happen at some 
point, I promise. :)

The win will be much easier portability between systems, and fewer 
configuration woes, with better diagnostics for newbies. We could have 
it automatically build H.323 support in if you have pwlib/openh323 
installed, cope better with library version changes, etc.

As importantly, we'll get cross-unix portability for less effort. There 
won't be a *BSD port - the autoconf stuff will sort it all out for you. 
Of course, we'll have to do some work to make sure it all functions 
properly, but it should be relatively easy to keep everything together 
and working once that has happened. Forking a set of patches for FreeBSD 
or whatever isn't the right way to do this.

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Alastair Maw <al.maw at mxtelecom.com>
MX Telecom - Systems Analyst
http://www.mxtelecom.com