[asterisk-users] Asterisk 1.4 or 1.6 ???

[Benny Amorsen]

Brendan Martens <brendan.martens at crosscomm.net> writes:

> On Oct 6, 2008, at 3:52 PM, Gordon Henderson wrote:
>
>> The answer you are looking for is that you should be using a  
>> supported,
>> stable version, and right now, 1.4 is the only one that fits. If I  
>> were
>> starting today, I'd go with 1.4.
>
> 1.6.0 has just been released.
> Personally I'd start with that because then you don't stuck with  
> generation old features, and as you are just starting you aren't  
> locked into any feature sets or syntax issues, etc.

I completely agree with Brendan here. 1.6 is new and undoubtedly buggy
(although we haven't been hit by anything serious yet...), but the
code quality is higher overall. Also, the code is fresh in the minds
of the developers, so they can fix bugs faster.

1.4 isn't new, but it still has its share of bugs -- look at Mantis.
The advantage of 1.4 and especially 1.2 is that you can look the bugs
up in Mantis before you hit them.

For your first deployment you will probably end up spending several
months in testing. During those months 1.6 will stabilize a lot. If
you hit a really bad bug, you can switch to 1.4 reasonably quickly --
they aren't THAT different.


/Benny