FWIW, I tried the L&G SVN today and it's a little too "bleeding edge" for me. YMMV.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Philipp Kempgen Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 2:44 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] SVN vs "Regular" Asterisk David Backeberg schrieb: > On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Danny Nicholas <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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. If you want to be sarcastic you could also say: ... the downside is that you are getting the very latest bugs, including bugs that may not yet be in a release. ;-) > By definition, SVN is ahead of the next release. True, assuming you're talking about trunk or branches. (Tags are the same thing as releases.) > You can answer for yourself what SVN equates to by navigating the > tree, but I would characterize it as 1.6.2plus Philipp Kempgen -- AMOOMA GmbH - Bachstr. 126 - 56566 Neuwied -> http://www.amooma.de Geschäftsführer: Stefan Wintermeyer, Handelsregister: Neuwied B14998 Asterisk: http://the-asterisk-book.com - http://das-asterisk-buch.de Videos of the AMOOCON VoIP conference 2009 -> http://www.amoocon.de -- _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
