Hi Max,
On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 04:36:51PM +0200, Max wrote:
There's clearly big difference between split BSC/MSC and NITB (config files, support for SCCP-lite etc) which makes the transition rather lengthy.
Not necessarily lengthy, but non-trivial, for sure.
What about SGSN and related stuff? It's been transitioned to libvlr at the time of split as well, but does this transition have any user-visible consequences?
I don't think it has been "transitioned to libvlr", has it?
OsmoSGSN has been supporting GSUP for years longer than OsmoMSC, so there's not really any user-visible change/transition, other than that of a different repository. Or am I missing something?
If not than we could transition gradually:
- make SGSN build optional (--enable-gprs?) in openbsc repo
I wouldn't go for that incremental step, but got to removing the code from openbsc.git altogether, like you suggested later in your mail below
- start building OsmoSGSN from osmo-sgsn repo instead of openbsc (both
.deb and OE)
I see no reason why not to.
- disable SGSN build by default and announce that patches should be > made against new repo
- remove gprs code from openbsc leaving placeholder readme with the link to new repo
I would suggest that we do both at once, as the code (aside from file moving/renaming and #include fixups) is exactly the same.
All the steps above are unrelated to BSC/MSC items so it could be done independently.
ACK.