I've talked to a few people who want to integrate Javascript, which would work out pretty well considering that we could, for example, hijack Walter Bright's (of Zortech and Symantec C++ fame) GPL implementation of ECMAScript (http://digitalmars.com/dscript/index.html)
However, and to be quite frank, I am shocked that no one has suggested using TCL. TCL is /perfect/ for OpenPBX. TCL is very lightweight, uses BSD-style license, and is ghoulishly easy to embed in to C applications. TCL is also easy to learn and has years of experience under its belt for embedding in C applications. Furthermore, there is a SourceForge project for TCL ODBC support (http://sf.net/projects/tclodbc/). I am not sure what the status of this project is because SF is down right now. Here's a tutorial on how to embed TCL in your C application: http://wiki.tcl.tk/2074 TCL would certainly save all the OpenPBX developers a _lot_ of time implementing GOOD dialplan scripting. After all, the common consensus here is to reinvent as few wheels as possible, TCL will let us do that better than any other language. (As opposed to AEL which is too good to even use flex/bison) -Justin Tunney On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 22:41:59 -0500, Daniel Swarbrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everybody, > > Has there been any more progress made on the decision to replace > pbx_config with an alternative dialplan language? The last murmurs I > heard were that it would possibly be Javascript. I realise that we have > res_js integrated, but it's still essentially just a translator like > AEL, to the core pbx_config methods. > > When can we break away from the clunky nature of extension priorities, > and have a dialplan flow more like a typical procedural language such as > Javascript, PHP or Python, with real functions? > > If we can come to a reasonable consensus about what the next step > forward is, I'm keen to spend a bit of time investigating the > feasibility of rewriting some of the apps like app_voicemail in the new > scripted dialplan language (ie Javascript perhaps). > > Also, is this kind of thing going to be affected by the ICD stuff? > > Cheers, > Daniel "pressureman" Swarbrick > _______________________________________________ > Openpbx-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openpbx.org/mailman/listinfo/openpbx-dev _______________________________________________ Openpbx-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openpbx.org/mailman/listinfo/openpbx-dev
