Sorry for being one that disagrees with you!!!!

Jan

Justin Tunney wrote:
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
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