I've been using Asterisk for the last 4 years.<br><br>Never had a reason to move to Freeswitch. Asterisk rarely crash, (we have more than 15M minutes) <br><br>If
you like perl so much (or any language for that matter) you could
configure Asterisk dialplan using a script instead of asterisk regular
dialplans... if you are used to unix style configuration files,
asterisk is not that hard, and you could always use one of the web
interfaces.<br>
<br>I personally, really likes the ruby on rails intergartaion to asterisk, makes it a lot of fun.<br><br>just my 2cents.<br><font color="#888888"><br>Ohad</font><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Amos Shapira <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:amos.shapira@gmail.com">amos.shapira@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">2009/2/10 Tzafrir Cohen <<a href="mailto:tzafrir@cohens.org.il">tzafrir@cohens.org.il</a>>:<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d">> FreeSwitch developers have many bad words regarding Asterisk. So many of<br>
> them are unfounded (or no longer founded) that I generally distrust<br>
> them.<br>
<br>
</div>This guy claims to be within the first tier of Asterisk commiters and<br>
to know its code through and through.<br>
<br>
Has Asterisk managed to get rid of the deadlocks and segfaults (and<br>
apparently a prehistoric architecture) he mentions in his "FreeSwitch<br>
vs Asterisk" at <a href="http://freeswitch.org/node/117" target="_blank">http://freeswitch.org/node/117</a>?<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
><br>
> At the moment Asterisk is more mature and far more deployed.<br>
<br>
</div>So it appears. But also I keep hearing horror stories about<br>
configuring it, and the guy who mentioned FreeSWITCH in the link from<br>
my previous message had experience with Asterisk and prefers<br>
FreeSWITCH.<br>
<br>
What merit points are there for Asterisk beyond "everyone uses it" (a<br>
billion flies CAN be wrong, you know)? Can it do something that<br>
FreeSwitch can't (the FreeSwitch guy says something about Asterisk<br>
being a PBX while FreeSwitch is a software switch, I don't know what's<br>
the difference and for now I plan to use it only for myself and maybe<br>
to connect a couple of trans-pacific offices)?<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
><br>
> (and does support Lua, BTW. Only nobody really bothers using it. As the<br>
> fact that most people didn't touch the pbx_perl and pbx_js that the<br>
> author of FS wrote as Asterisk modules before starting FS)<br>
><br>
> Anyway, FS's license is MPL. Which for me is a concern to avoid using<br>
> it: yet another GPL-incompatible software does not help anybody.<br>
<br>
</div>In all the arguments above I didn't see one which actually refers to<br>
the merits of FreeSwitch.<br>
<br>
I'm not trying to annoy, just understand what am I missing about it,<br>
if at all. So far your points against it are not conclusive, IMHO.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
<font color="#888888"><br>
--Amos<br>
</font><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br>
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