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

[Patrick]

On Mon, 2007-12-24 at 04:11 -0700, Anthony Francis wrote:
> Axel Thimm wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 10:40:32PM +0100, Benny Amorsen wrote:
> >   
> >> Olle E Johansson <oej at edvina.net> writes:
> >>
> >>     
> >>> But on the other hand, if people rely on third-party distributions
> >>> we might want to set up some kind of peer pressure on the
> >>> maintainers - and possibly identify them so we can support them and
> >>> speed up their process.
> >>>       
> >> Third-party distributions are very important, and Asterisk has
> >> for various reasons done relatively badly there.
> >>
> >> Fedora still doesn't have Asterisk, but does have CallWeaver. Asterisk
> >> isn't even available in the most popular extra repositories, but only
> >> in ATrpms, my least favourite of the larger repositories.
> >>     
> >
> > It happens to be my favourite thrid party repo though, ;) and indeed
> > there is quite some asterisk support happening there.
> >   
[snip]

> Asterisk is fairly easy to build, I don't see why it needs to be in a 
> repo. IMO

For example because you don't have a build environment (gcc, autoconf
etc.) on a production box. A repo allows you to build on one box and
deploy the RPMs via the repo on the other boxes.

Regards,
Patrick