[asterisk-users] clarification on gosub, macros and AEL

[Joshua C. Colp]

On Wed, Oct 16, 2019, at 6:28 AM, Julian Beach wrote:
> Hello Doug,
> 
> Tuesday, October 15, 2019, 5:07:45 PM, you wrote:
> 
> > Personally, I don't think MACROS are going anywhere any time soon,
> > so I have not bothered looking into a substitution.
> 
> Haven't they gone in Asterisk 16? I've just upgraded from Asterisk 13
> and had to do some hasty re-writing of my dialplan to convert the
> Macros into Gosubs because the Macros did not work (I had noticed the
> deprecation notice previously, but forgot about it). I didn't have
> many, so I did them by hand, but it would be easy to script.

The module is still present, it just isn't built by default. It requires explicit enabling using menuselect.

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