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

[Olle E Johansson]

17 dec 2007 kl. 15.42 skrev Tony Plack:

>>>
>>> All I can say is with 1.6, if a change is made that causes
>>> something that worked in 1.4 not to work in 1.6, please think
>>> twice, three times or four times before making the change, or
>>> making the change in such a way that it won't break dialplan
>>> stuff from 1.4.
>>>
>> Our policy is to never remove any functionality between two
>> versions. We replace the functionality with new functionality and
>> print out warnings whenever you use the deprecated functions. We
>> also add this to the documenation in the software and the
>> UPGRADE.TXT file. So the functionality that you lost in 1.4 was old
>> 1.0 functions that was marked as deprecated in 1.2 and removed in
>> 1.4.
> Just a thought for 1.6 (and maybe a backport to 1.4 and should have  
> been in 1.2)....
> What if the warning messages about deprecated functions were able to  
> be tracked in a separate file.  I can see on some busy machines that  
> these warning messages get lost.  I thought I had all of them  
> handled on our dial plan, but learn 4 "new" locations I was using  
> old functions just last month.
>
> This way, when the users look to upgrade, they change the reporting  
> location for these commands, and then check them in a month to see  
> what they need to fix in the dial plan.
>
> Just a thought.

We could certainly consider adding a new logger channel for this.

Thanks for the feedback and the suggestion!

/O