[asterisk-users] Upgrade to Asterisk 1.4 - it's one year's old!

[Tony Mountifield]

My reasons for not yet upgrading to 1.4:

- I have a lot of customisations to app_meetme, which I will need to port
  to 1.4. I have procrastinated about doing so because of all the SLA
  stuff that got grafted into app_meetme during the early 1.4 versions.
  If I had developed the SLA code, I would have made a separate app_sla or
  res_sla with copies of only those parts of app_meetme that were actually
  needed (e.g. leaving out DTMF menus, participant announcements, etc.),
  and left app_meetme to do only "real" conferencing.

- Scare stories about IAX-related lockups in 1.4, due to the new
  multi-threaded implementation. It looks like the latest versions
  should have got this sorted, especially with the use of astobj2, but
  I haven't had time to try it out yet.

- So far, 1.2 is doing everything we need, and has been rock solid.

Another problem is, when I do move to 1.4, any customisations or new
features I do create would still need to be ported to trunk before they
would have any chance of making it into Asterisk. This takes time, which
is always in short supply, and means that some cool features remain mine
only :-(

Cheers
Tony
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Tony Mountifield
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