Re: [sipX-dev] Remove Polycom SoundPoint IP "1.6" support
Paul Mossman wrote:
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[mailto:sipx-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dale Worley
Sent: August 15, 2008 10:36 AM
On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 17:11 -0400, Huijun Yang wrote:
This is based on the assumption that all the firmware versions from
and beyond 2.0 will have compatible format, therefore there is no
need
to distinguish firmware version. However, I am not sure it is a safe
assumption. Anyone can comment on this?
The format has changed in the past. That suggests that the
format will change in the future.
Yes, it will probably change in the future, in which case we'll have to
resurrect the Polycom "Firmware Version" field.
Exactly. Plugin can support multiple version in couple of different ways:
(1) by generating files that are compatible with more than one version
(2) by generating different files based on user selected version (device
model returns an array of supported versions)
Currently Polycom plugin does both. It generates one version of file for
1.6 and another for everything > 2.0
Since we are dropping support for 1.6 and we do not (at least for now
distinguish between various > 2.0 versions). It only make sense if for now
we remove explicit version selection. It will be brought back as soon as
someone adds more specific support for any version.
But, we can only work with what we have. We are compatible with the
current Polycom configuration file format. If Polycom in the future
introduces a format that is not backward-compatible, then it will not be
compatible in our current release. We'll have to do work in our next
release to accommodate the version-specific format differences.
Think of it as a limitation, not an incorrect assumption. :) (And we
have this limitation today anyway.)
-Paul
