<div dir="ltr"><div>I build from source because I'm one of the core devs, but end users cant NOT be expected to do that, I'd love to have FreeSWITCH in multiple linux distros, and we're working on exactly that. Anyone wishing to help in that area could join us on tomorrows ClueCon Weekly, We'll be talking about 1.6 and some of these items.</div><div><br></div><div>Also there are companies that will not use source due to policies.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 4:54 PM, Alex Balashov <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:abalashov@evaristesys.com" target="_blank">abalashov@evaristesys.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);line-height:initial"> <div style="width:100%;font-size:initial;font-family:Calibri,'Slate Pro',sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">My personal view is that distro packaging for Freeswitch, Asterisk, Kamailio, and most OSS VoIP elements is unreliable, inconsistent and lopsided, so the only viable approach is to build these things from source, always. This allows one to maintain granular version controland to apply patches as needed.</div><div style="width:100%;font-size:initial;font-family:Calibri,'Slate Pro',sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div><div style="width:100%;font-size:initial;font-family:Calibri,'Slate Pro',sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">If you just forget packaging and learn to love the source, you'll obviate a vast category of problems and not waste time on fighting with packages. It also has the positive side effect that you can support pretty much any server distribution. Debian, CentOS, RHEL, Ubuntu server, who cares?</div> <div style="width:100%;font-size:initial;font-family:Calibri,'Slate Pro',sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div> <div></div> <div style="font-size:initial;font-family:Calibri,'Slate Pro',sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">--<br>Alex Balashov | Principal | Evariste Systems LLC<br>303 Perimeter Center North, Suite 300<br>Atlanta, GA 30346<br>United States<br><br>Tel: <a href="tel:%2B1-800-250-5920" value="+18002505920" target="_blank">+1-800-250-5920</a> (toll-free) / <a href="tel:%2B1-678-954-0671" value="+16789540671" target="_blank">+1-678-954-0671</a> (direct)<br>Web: <a href="http://www.evaristesys.com/" target="_blank">http://www.evaristesys.com/</a>, <a href="http://www.csrpswitch.com/" target="_blank">http://www.csrpswitch.com/</a><br><br>Sent from my BlackBerry.</div> <br></div>
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