> On 30 Jun 2023, at 13:45, aster...@phreaknet.org wrote: > > Hi folks, > > I've put up a PR to deprecate users.conf[1], following a discussion > earlier this year about this, but I think that was on IRC so wanted to > discuss here as well. > > Mark introduced users.conf at some point in the early 2000s with the idea of > it being a "simple" way to configure certain things, but I think time has > shown that to be its primary weakness. New modules haven't supported > users.conf in a long time (such as PJSIP), and now that chan_sip is already > gone, there is basically no point in keeping users.conf around anymore. The > main two modules that still "support" it (if you can call the hack job > parsing they do "support") are chan_dahdi and chan_iax2, and the > configuration for both of these is almost entirely non-overlapping and really > needs to be configured in the appropriate module config file anyways. It was a bad hack from the start with a poor architecture. Time to remove it. +100
/O > > Therefore, I am proposing this be deprecated in 21 so that it can be removed > in 23, in accordance with the Asterisk deprecation policy: > > * Support for users.conf has dwindled as new modules no longer support > it and modules that did support it (e.g. chan_sip) have been largely > removed > * No real functionality has been added to the users.conf mechanism > since it was introduced. New features are added to specific modules, > but these are not supported in users.conf > * users.conf was a super simplistic mechanism that in practice did not > pan out. It's something that really should never have been added in > the first place. Use of it has been widely discouraged since it was > introduction, and caused confusion for Asterisk newcomers, > particularly with a default install where users see warnings about > users.conf. Users should not be using it and the fact that the > sample config still exists continues to create confusion > * Removing users.conf will help eliminate technical debt, allowing for > simplification of the codebase and easier maintenance going forward > > This is somewhat different as users.conf is not any single module, and > there's no real process for deprecating a config file, but a warning message > is added when the PBX loads here so that users will see a notice about it, > just like with deprecated modules. It's also in the upgrade notes. This is a > master only change, so it won't be removed until late 2025 at the earliest. > > Any objections or other thoughts on this matter? > > [1] https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/pull/184 > > > -- > _____________________________________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > asterisk-dev mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-dev -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-dev mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-dev
