On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 09:53:17AM -0700, Stephen Bosch wrote: > Tom Rymes wrote: > > On Feb 12, 2007, at 7:13 PM, Stephen Bosch wrote: > > > >> Lee Jenkins wrote: > >>> Stefano Corsi wrote: > > > >>> The nice things about GUI's in my opinion is that routine chores such as > >>> setting up extensions, dialing extensions, hunt groups, etc. are less > >>> likely to contain scripting bugs or typos. The downside from what I > >>> gather with many GUI's is that the friendly abstraction that insulates > >>> you from the nuts and bolts of scripting and configuration also makes it > >>> difficult to customize the dialplan in some cases. > >> > >> It also makes troubleshooting problems a handful-and-a-half. And woe is > >> you if you need kernel customizations to make your hardware work. > > > > Not to start a flame-war, but I completely disagree. Troubleshooting a > > GUI is much easier, given that you don't have to scout for typos, > > transposed numbers, etc throughout the dialplan. With the GUI, you have > > to double check the information that you input into the GUI, but that's > > it. As for hardware, it should be no more difficult to get Trixbox to > > play nicely with hardware than any other Asterisk install. You may have > > to patch and/or recompile zaptel, asterisk, etc, but that's no different > > than what you would have to do with a non-Trixbox install. (and you > > really shouldn't have to in almost all cases) > > I come from the practice of compiling everything from sources because > binary distributions -- be they of Asterisk or any other Linux or Linux > application -- are unreliable. Nobody knows what hardware you're running > but you; compiling from sources gives you a better chance of ending up > with a result that works. I used to use binary distributions; that's > when I had the most trouble getting stuff working. I did one source > installation and never looked back.
You can take those binary packages and rebuild them when you need so. rpm, deb and similar provide a very strong method of reproducable builds. Well-built packages also tend to work better than a simple 'make install' because they are better debugged. -- Tzafrir Cohen icq#16849755 jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +972-50-7952406 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.xorcom.com iax:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/tzafrir _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users