Steve Edwards wrote: > On Sat, 15 Dec 2007, Johansson Olle E wrote: > > >> I wonder if there are any major obstacles for upgrading. >> > > How about the change from a bad command line interface to a really bad > command line interface? > > I mean, Seriously? (in a Grey's Anatomy kind of way...) > > The old syntax was inconsistent -- "show manager command" vs "sip show > channels" and just plain bad -- for example "sip reload" should have been > "reload sip." > > The new syntax continues down the noun-verb path instead of correcting > itself and using verb-noun like most other applications (MySQL, GDB, > Oracle, etc.) > > Then, just to make it worse, now I have to learn which commands somebody > (arbitrarily) decided are "core" and which are not -- for what benefit? > Certainly doesn't make MY job easier! > > Approach the command line like a noob. I want Asterisk to show me > something so I'll start the command line with "show." I'm not quite sure > what I'm doing, so I'll press <TAB> to see what I can show. Oh, "channel" > looks like what I want. Hmm, too much. Maybe I should have qualified what > kind of channel I'm looking for BEFORE the word "channel." > > Here's a suggestion -- stop thinking like a parser and start thinking like > a person :) > > Which makes more sense (at least in English)? > > 1) show black dogs -- show sip channels > 2) black show dogs -- sip show channels > 3) dogs black show -- channels sip show > 4) show dogs black -- show channels sip > 5) black dogs show -- sip channels show > 6) dogs show black -- channels show sip > > Is it too late to fix this for 1.6? > Are there going to be Black Dogs in 1.6??
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