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

[Olle E Johansson]

17 dec 2007 kl. 15.26 skrev Tony Plack:

>> - Not enough reasons to upgrade, since 1.2 really works well - Just
>> a bad karma for 1.4
>
> Funny, but my results have been different.  I was running on 1.2.17  
> (and on to 22) for a year and had all sorts of lockups.  For me,  
> when I switched to 1.4.5 these things went away.
>
> I did find some bugs and switched to branch/1.4 in SVN.  While some  
> have considered this bleeding edge, I figure since there is no NEW  
> code development, these are all bug fixes.  So far, I have yet to  
> find something that broke since I polled SVN every week.  I do  
> review the changes and implement as needed.  I have yet to have a  
> major problem with the server that was not caused because of my  
> config.
>
> Our site might be small in number of connections in real time, but  
> it is much more stable since 1.4
>
> I think if you polled the 1.2 community, not everyone is running  
> 1.2.25.  I think that the bugs you know are the bugs you love.  I  
> don't know if it is just 1.4 but I think that anything past version  
> 1.2.X is considered dangerous.  I also wonder if because 1.2 had  
> such success, that there are many who use this code who are not  
> programmers and have trouble diagnosing Open Source bugs.  Not that  
> they need to be, but if that were me, it would change my opinion of  
> the code and the support given if I didn't know how to debug a C  
> program.  Just some thoughts.
>
> Thanks to the team for their hard work on 1.4.  My experience with  
> 1.4 makes me hunger for 1.6 a short time after release.

Please observer that this man was not bribed by the Asterisk Developer  
Team :-)

Thanks a lot!

More postive and negative feedback is appreciated.

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