Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:27:57 -0500
From: "Nathan C. Smith" < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Astlinux-users] Phone provisioning
To: "'Discussion of AstLinux - Asterisk on Compact Flash'"
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You might have some interest in what we have going on with OpenPBX.org. One
of our developers is working on rewriting the configuration system in order
to use plists like macs and NeXT used to. This will allow only choices from
a list and will greatly eliminate typos and misspellings. We have a goal of
backwards compatibility through the use of scripts to bring older configs up
to date.
We have already implemented hashing in the dial plan and it gives a speed
increase over the existing "parser".
The Plists would be a super match for php.
Something to keep your eye on?
-Nate
I agree- plists would be a nice match. My concern, especially in the case of something like astlinux, but in general, is the use of scripts to 'bring older configs up to date'. I don't wanna- I want the system to use what's there, let me make arbitrary changes directly to the configuration files, and still be able to deal with it. I know, it's a picky, lofty goal- perhaps even impossible. But I look at it as- I can represent the same dialplan 10 different ways or more, and Asterisk interprets it correctly, every time- so why can't a configuration tool? I see it as a perfect fit for astlinux, as it's use is more aimed at small environments, with beginning administrators, or no administrator at all. Someone who installs asterisk in an environment like that needs a simple interface, but may grow into more advanced development- and the last thing I would recommend to them is to lock themselves in to a particular configuration tool, or style.
I will keep my eye on it, and I'll also burn some brain power as to how I might get my evil, er, stated goals accomplished. At some point, I may put together a collection of some of the more bizarre Asterisk configs, so I can feed them into a parser and see what jumps out.
-pbd
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