Jim,
I can understand your point of view, and when it comes to optimizing *
for a specialized task, can fully concur. But I'll be my money that *'s
future is more then just that. If we want a wide scaled adoption of *
then a GUI is mandatory.
How many large scale PBX's are there out there? Versus how many smaller
PBX's plus key systems and then the SoHo market?
To get * easily into the hands of these people, some sort of GUI is
going to be required. AMP is a pretty good stab at it. Personally I can
do 90% of what I need through it. Sure there are things you can't do
through it but that's ok, then you have the ability to go under the
covers and tinker with it.
Jim, when you talk about bloat, I don't think AMP adds much in the way
of bloat. It's a 3.4Mb tar. It doesn't use Xserver which would be BAD.
It's using resources (httpd, mySQL) that pretty much there for reporting
and CDR.
I've given this some thought and I believe there is a better solution
which would satisfy both. That would be to have a separate configuration
manager (say like FWBuilder), that ran on say your laptop. This would do
a few things, remove the bloat of a GUI ( which is minimal ) but most
importantly give you an automatic backup of your configuration. This app
would connect to the * box, find the installed configuration, suck it
out, and then allow you to play with it and push it back up. I imagine
the app to allow you to keep multiple versions, so you can tinker on
mods, push them up and test. If it fails, just push up the last stable
and your back and running.
Just my blurry morning thoughts.
Mike
Jim Van Meggelen wrote:
Folks,
I am not a huge fan of using a GUI to configure Asterisk, simply because I
feel it adds bloat to the system and limits choice.
Having said that, it would sometimes be nice to offer a simple interface
that would allow chinging user names, mailbox info, DIDs and so forth.
So, what I'd like to ask is for people's opinions on a nice, simple,
lightweight front end for handling some of the more mundane bits of
configuration. AMP/[EMAIL PROTECTED] is certainly a worthy effort, but far too
much, to my
way of thinking.
Thoughts? Opinions? Experiences?
Obliged.
Jim.
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