Lonnie Abelbeck wrote: > On May 19, 2008, at 12:30 PM, Darrick Hartman (lists) wrote: > > >> Lonnie Abelbeck wrote: >> >>> On May 19, 2008, at 2:32 AM, Philip Prindeville wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Darrick Hartman (lists) wrote: >>>> >>>>> [snip] >>>>> Interesting. I usually use use the park and announce feature. So >>>>> you >>>>> just transfer the call to 1187 in your example, then have someone >>>>> else >>>>> dial 1188 (etc) to pick up the call. >>>>> >>>>> I'm just thinking how much of a pain in the butt it's going to >>>>> be to >>>>> redo all the Macro logic to a non-macro approach when the Macro >>>>> function >>>>> is deprecated. >>>>> >>>>> Darrick >>>>> >>>>> >>>> Actually, I didn't find the new GoSub with arguments to be all that >>>> painful. It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. >>>> >>>> -Philip >>>> >>> It appears that MACRO() is not going away, though deprecated. >>> "for the sake of backwards compatibility it will not be removed" see >>> below. >>> >>> From asterisk /tags/1.6.0-beta9/UPGRADE.txt >>> >>> 88 Macro() is now deprecated. If you need subroutines, you should >>> use the >>> >> The developers typically remove the feature in the version after the >> feature is marked as deprecated. I would expect this to be gone in >> 1.8, >> whenever that's released. So for 1.4 and 1.6, you're right that >> Macro() >> is still available. >> >> Darrick >> > > I agree with you, removing deprecated features is the norm... but I > read their description as... > > "we prefer you not to use macro() anymore, but because of all the > grief we have been getting from removing long-standard features, we > have decided to not remove macro() anytime soon" - my quote > > I predict 1.8 and 2.0 will include macro()... but, I may be wrong. :-) > > Lonnie >
I tried to submit a feature that required Macro(), and they spanked me for it and made me resubmit after a rewrite of using Gosub(). Part of the reasoning was that the obsolescence of Macro() might get moved up. -Philip ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
