Got any better suggestions? Until I find something else that is better (and free) I am stuck with FreePBX. It does everything I could ever possibly want it to do.
If someone thinks it is not flexible enough to support most if not all custom configurations they probably don't know how to use it properly. Configuring from scratch may be good for personal satisfaction, ego or whatever but not very practical for a lot of people, businesses, and applications. I am not disagreeing that the requirement for MySQL, Perl, and Apache are overkill for many installations. It does work quite well for more complicated setups and again, there is nothing else out there that is free and even comes close to it's sophistication and ease of use. -----Original Message----- From: IPC Solutions [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 3:09 PM To: Discussion of AstLinux - Asterisk on Compact Flash Subject: Re: [Astlinux-users] Phone provisioning Thanks FreePBX for forcing me to learn how to configure Asterisk from scratch. HORRIBLE is the word. Totally agree. Michael Knill -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kristian Kielhofner Sent: Friday, 20 October 2006 6:25 AM To: Discussion of AstLinux - Asterisk on Compact Flash Subject: Re: [Astlinux-users] Phone provisioning Paul Davidson wrote: > > 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 > pbd, I like your style. FreePBX (or whatever they are calling that GUI) has some major problems that keep it out of AstLinux: 1) HUGE software dependencies. Why do you need MySQL, perl, etc, etc for a simple web interface? 2) Inflexibility. They also force a given style of configuration on you. If you are not able to accomplish your Asterisk goals within that framework, too bad. You're out of luck and you're back to editing config files by hand. Unfortunately, now you are editing HORRIBLE config files that are so abstracted you're better off starting from scratch... I really like how you are approaching this. Let me know if you need anything, anything at all. -- Kristian Kielhofner _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.kriscompanies.com/mailman/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.kriscompanies.com/mailman/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
