[asterisk-users] software bloat - is this really useful to anyone?

[Kevin P. Fleming]

Tzafrir Cohen wrote:

> OTOH: /usr/sbin/asterisk depends on libopenh323 . Now this *is* bloat.

Did you bother to check into why this is the case before spreading this
unfounded information on the mailing list?

First of all, this is *NOT* true unless the chan_h323 module was built,
which the vast majority of users do not do.

Second, the library is linked to the main Asterisk binary because of
some complex shared-library dependencies inside OpenH.323 and PWLIB. I
don't completely understand what they where, but the developer who did
the work (Pavel Cadach) does, and he can show you how *not* doing it
this way results in the OpenH.323 libraries being left in memory after
chan_h323 is unloaded. Since this can only affect users who build
chan_h323, it seemed like a reasonable change to make.

-- 
Kevin P. Fleming
Director of Software Technologies
Digium, Inc. - "The Genuine Asterisk Experience" (TM)