On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 10:08:53 -0800, Jordan Hubbard <email@hidden> wrote:
> It would be better if you ported this software to the BIND9 APIs anyway
> (or found someone able to do this for you). We're going to retire the
> BIND8 compatibility APIs in the not-at-all-distant future and the
> BIND_8_COMPAT hack was a solution which was only destined to work for a
> release or two. Its days are numbered.
Thank you for the clarification and I will certainly pick up on this.
If there are benefits for Asterisk on Linux and FreeBSD to migrate the
code to BIND9, then that will most likely happen sooner or later
anyway.
In the short term, however, the decision of what goes into the
Asterisk CVS tree is not mine. If significant changes are required
then it would have to be cleared with the (Linux centric) CVS
maintainers beforehand. Nobody would want to do anything that would in
effect lead to a code fork.
Asterisk, most likely being the most important server software since
Apache is in such intensive development, that a small company like
ourselves won't be able to keep up keeping a forked codebase in sync.
If Apple was to retire the compatibility wrapper too early, in effect
rendering Asterisk incompatible with MacOS X, it would hurt thousands
of happy Mac users of Asterisk and prevent them from upgrading MacOS
X. If your telephone system stops working as a result of an OS
upgrade, you don't upgrade - it's that simple.
In any event, I will raise the migration to the BIND9 API as a
proposal in the Asterisk community. At the same time I would like to
contact you off-list to discuss some other aspects. We are already
working with some of your colleagues at Apple to bring Rendezvous to
Asterisk (and subsequently to various IP telephones and other end user
telephone equipment).
thanks again
regards
benjk
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