[asterisk-users] Realtime SIP peers - reloading cached info

[Johansson Olle E]

13 feb 2008 kl. 10.27 skrev Rob Hillis:

> That's why I didn't see anything about the REALTIME function when I  
> went looking - many of our production systems are still on later  
> versions of 1.2.
>
> Given that it wasn't made obsolete at the beginning of the 1.4  
> cycle, I'm hoping Digium reconsider making it obsolete in 1.6 and  
> schedule it for removal in 1.8.  Half a development cycle isn't a  
> very long time for a warning that a function will be removed.

First, it's not "Digium" - it's the Asterisk developer team. There  
still is a difference, not all of us are employed by Digium. My work  
is mostly funded by myself nowadays, and some by customers that hires  
me as a consultant for various Asterisk projects. I tried to get more  
general funding to spend more time with Asterisk development, but  
failed.

So please rememner that there are a few independent regular Asterisk  
developers out there that is not on the Digium payroll and still take  
part in  decisions about Asterisk.

The way it works is that we decide which functions to deprecate during  
the development cycle. So any decisions was made before the 1.4  
release and stays for the duration of the 1.4 release. We did not  
deprecate anything in 1.4 after the initial release late 2006.

The functionality that was marked as "deprecated" in 1.4 will be  
removed in 1.6. In fact, it's propably already removed in the  
development code that is the base for the future 1.6.

Over a year is a long time for a warning like this, considering that  
1.6 won't be out for a while (we're in beta test cycle) it might even  
be 1.5 year warning. That should be more than enough for most people -  
I hope. Considering that people don't upgrade quickly, it will  
propably be more than that for most users (as you are still on 1.2 :-) )

Just wanted to clarify the process, I have no detailed insight into  
the realtime functions.

/O


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