[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk 0.7.1 RH 7.3 RPMS Released

[Greg Boehnlein]

On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, WipeOut wrote:

> This is great to see.. but why RH7.3 (or RH8 for that matter) since it 
> has already been EOL'ed by RH??

Couple of reasons..

1. It is a stable, known quantity that uses solid components and closely 
mirrors the environment that a lot of people develop Asterisk on. It isn't 
going to drastically change, so those wishing to deploy it in production 
may look to RedHat 7.3 as a stable platform for that purpose.

2. 8.0 and 9.0 are really not "server" oriented distributions of RedHat. 
RedHat started using a lot of edge technology in the later versions of 
RedHat (newer Glibc, newer GCC) and as a result, I know very few people 
(and I know a lot in my Industry ;) that are deploying commercial, 
production servers on top of RH 8 and 9. It's great for the DeskTop, but 
not in the Data center. As with all things, this is based on my personal 
opinions, so your mileage may vary! ;)

3. I want to refine the RPMS a bit and do some updates and changes to the 
.specfiles. If I have to maintain 7.3, 8.0, 9.0 and FC1 releases, that is 
3 times the build work. Work will proceed a lot more rapidly if I just 
have to do a weekly update for one platform.

4. I run Asterisk on top of RH 7.3 currently and it suited my needs. ;)

5. I haven't yet built my 8.0, 9.0 and Fedora Core 1 development 
environments for Vmware, although the SRPMS that I released -SHOULD- build 
on them without modifications.

> For those who use RH or Fedora Core, RH9 is EOL in April and FC2 is 
> scheduled for release in April as well..

See #5! ;) 

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