It's plain and simple the answer to this...
If you fall into any of these categories:
a) Don't understand code to begin with
b) Don't want to take the time to understand the code
c) Don't have the time to understand the code
d) Don't want to pay the the person who made the code to help you
e) Can't find anyone else using the code
f) Can't find the programer
g) Have walked to the ends of the earth and exhausted all your online
resources for finding more info out about the code and still no luck.
You basically need to go with some commercial company and pay them. Go to
the .biz list
I for one have used numerous open source free code...and sometimes it was a
struggle...but most of the time you can find the programmer's email in the
sourcecode...a lot of them are willing to give you some help/info.
I haven't seen you mention any particular code by name you are having
trouble with either.
Maybe if you did...someone here has already figured it out and would be
willing to help.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Douglas Garstang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion"
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Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 3:28 PM
Subject: RE: [asterisk-users] Manager Interface API's
Actually, because there's no documentation, I don't have anything that I can
use.
-----Original Message-----
From: Dovid Bender [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 12:54 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Asterisk Users Mailing List -
Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Manager Interface API's
Some of them write it for them selves and out of the goodness
of thier heart
will put out there for free. They dont need doc's since they
wrote it them
selves. Be happy that you got it for free. Do you want people to stop
releasing code because others complain ?
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Novack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion"
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Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 12:39 PM
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Manager Interface API's
> I, for one, didn't take his comment as anything other than
constructive
> Lack of documentation is an issue, open source or not.
> It is an unfortunate situation that many very smart coders
understand what
> they have created, but are unwilling or unable to supply enough
> information for many others to make effective use of their creation
> How many have struggled through the years with uncommented
or poorly
> commented code when the original creator is off to greener pastures?
>
> JMO
>
> John Novack
>
>
> Moises Silva wrote:
>> Douglas. Please take this as a constructive comment. I
have followed
>> your questions in asterisk-dev and users lists, and you
always seem to
>> make non constructive comments about the people giving
code/work for
>> Free. And you focus in the negative part, never giving
importance to
>> the positive things about it.
>>
>> If you dont like something, then change it yourself, they are not
>> providing a payed service. The source is available AS-IS
if you want
>> it, and if you like it, take it; If you dont, just ignore
it, try to
>> not make peyorative comments.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> On 8/15/06, Douglas Garstang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Well, I don't know about you, but if I have to read the
source code to
>>> work
>>> out how it works, I'm going to go and look at someone
elses, that may
>>> have
>>> some BASIC documentation and examples.
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Don [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 9:09 AM
>>> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
>>> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Manager Interface API's
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Probably cause it is someone like most of us sitting at home doing
>>> it...releasing it for free...so why would we write pages of
>>> documentation
>>> for it?
>>> If it's open source and it's free...Then offer them some
money to make
>>> documentation for it hehe...
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: Douglas Garstang
>>> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
>>> Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 11:05 AM
>>> Subject: [asterisk-users] Manager Interface API's
>>>
>>>
>>> Can anyone recommend the best Manager Interface API,
putting language
>>> preferences aside?
>>>
>>> The python and perl ones have bupkiss documentation. I
can't understand
>>> why
>>> anyone would even write an api and make it publically
available without
>>> documenting it.
>>>
>>> Doug.
>>>
>>>
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