[asterisk-users] Upgrade to Asterisk 1.4 - it's one year's old!

[Dovid B]

>
> If anything broke from the transition from 1.2 to 1.4, it is because you 
> were
> using something that was deprecated in 1.2.  What we had attempted to do
> in deprecation modes was to print the warning ONCE for each deprecated
> operation, per Asterisk startup.  I think that this was much too 
> conservative.
> It is very easy to miss that deprecation warning, since it occurs so few
> times.  Of course, the opposite side is that we don't want deprecation
> warnings to fill up your logs, so there's a balancing act here.  But we 
> could
> probably do with making the deprecation warnings a bit more prominent
> and print them multiple times (for example, every 10th usage).  That 
> should
> make it more clear that there's something to change.
>
> Of course, all of these deprecations should be covered in UPGRADE.txt, so
> please read that file every time you upgrade to a new version.  It will
> contain everything that has changed in a possibly incompatible way.  And 
> if
> you find something that broke that wasn't in this file, please let us 
> know, so
> we can revise that file.  We may not have gotten everything, but we do 
> try.
>

I don't think there is an issue with people reading UPGRADE.txt as there is 
re-doing all of our custom code.