Aidan Van Dyk wrote:
In either case, since they are committed to the open source model, are they willing to tell us what features/bug fixes in CVS are considered an increased liability and risk, or what important features and bug fixes they've applied on top of CVS? This could help those of us trying to build stable, robust, asterisk-based solutions promote asterisk as a stable, robust, low-risk platform.
There is absolutely _no_ code in ABE that is not in CVS HEAD, except for the code related to license control required for the commercial product and an installer (since it's a binary distribution). We have not, and will not, put any bug fixes or new features into ABE that do not go into CVS HEAD as well (and in fact I don't think there's any situation where a feature would go into ABE first).
Simply stated, ABE is a supported, documented, tested and commercially packaged/licensed version of Asterisk, designed for companies who want such a package. It is missing quite a number of features from CVS HEAD that were deemed unnecessary and/or difficult to support, and it will not be updated as often as CVS HEAD itself is (or even as often as the stable releases are made), from what I understand. It does not come with source code, nor is the exact source code available to anyone outside of Digium, which is done purely for support reasons. ABE users can call Digium support and the support staff will know _exactly_ what they are running, since it is a packaged release.
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