[asterisk-users] app_rpt and chan_usbradio removal from trunk

[Josh Freeman]

Just to inform the list -

App_rpt and chan_usbradio are still regularly used and maintained, but
now live in a repository at ohnosec.org along with the forked-off builds
of Asterisk 1.4 and Zaptel that are required to have them work properly.

I'm told there is some fundamental incompatibility between canonical
Zaptel/DAHDI and the radio application that can't be effectively worked
around, or would take more effort than it would be worth to fix and keep
up with DAHDI changes. This was the motivation for forking Asterisk and
maintaining a separate codebase.

Although I can't speak authoritatively for the app_rpt community, I'll
say that I haven't seen too much concern over being stuck with 1.4.
Those of us who really like the idea of integrating our app_rpt radio
systems with more conventional Asterisk use cases find it much easier
(and often more desirable anyway, from a system viewpoint) to just set
up a second box with canonical 1.8 or 10 and trunk the two together.

Josh Freeman

On 02/23/2012 08:57 AM, Paul Belanger wrote:
> Good morning,
>
> There is a new patch up on reviewboard[1] right now for the removal of
> app_rpt and chan_usbradio from Asterisk trunk.  As it stands right now
> these two modules do not appear to be maintained in this repository
> and have out-of-date code.
>
> Russellb's patch will see these to modules removed from asterisk trunk
> (asterisk 11).  If a large part of the community wishes to help
> maintain this code, please speak up.
>
> As it stands right now, we'll likely wait a week or two remove
> committing the patch.
>
> [1] - https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/1764/