[asterisk-users] SVN vs "Regular" Asterisk

[David Backeberg]

On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Danny Nicholas <danny at debsinc.com> wrote:
> Hi gang,
>
>              Can someone shed some light on the pros and cons of working
> with the SVN branches of Asterisk vs working in the 1.4 or 1.6 branches?
> What branch does the SVN release roughly equate to?

What do you mean by 'working with'?

If you are developing asterisk code, as in changes to the source code
of asterisk, the benefits are that you know whether:
a) anybody else has already made the changes you want to make
b) your changes merge successfully with the latest code

If you plan to make your changes available to the community, you are
better off developing against SVN, as that is where your patches will
eventually have to be applied.

If you are just compiling and using asterisk, the benefit is that you
are getting the very latest features, including bug fixes that may not
yet be in a release. By definition, SVN is ahead of the next release.
You can answer for yourself what SVN equates to by navigating the
tree, but I would characterize it as 1.6.2plus