[asterisk-users] Addons for Asterisk 1.8?

[Sherwood McGowan]

On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 2:09 AM, Tilghman Lesher <tlesher at digium.com> wrote:
> On Monday 08 November 2010 16:05:28 Carlos Chavez wrote:
>> On Mon, 2010-11-08 at 16:53 -0500, bakko wrote:
>> > The addons are in the same package.
>> >
>> > Regards
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "Carlos Chavez" <cursor at telecomabmex.com>
>> > To: "Asterisk" <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
>> > Sent: Monday, November 08, 2010 4:43 PM
>> > Subject: [asterisk-users] Addons for Asterisk 1.8?
>>
>>       Yes, I spoke before opening the UPGRADE.txt file and reading that they
>> are now included in the same archive.  I do not quite understand why
>> they changed the distribution method.  I think it is better to have a
>> separate package that you do not have to download every time you upgrade
>> Asterisk.
>
> The reason for including it is because when we occasionally need to change
> the internal API, it's difficult to remember which version of the addons
> package goes with each version of Asterisk.  Additionally, changes to the
> addons packages rarely got released on time in the past.  It makes it a lot
> easier just to include them directly in the main distribution, default
> disabled.
>
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Not to mention, they're not _that_ much of an increase in download size ;-)