Tilghman Lesher wrote: > On Wednesday 25 February 2009 11:19:08 sean darcy wrote: >> Tilghman Lesher wrote: >>> On Wednesday 25 February 2009 09:51:23 Klaus Darilion wrote: >>>> Tilghman Lesher schrieb: >>>>> On Tuesday 24 February 2009 16:07:52 Klaus Darilion wrote: >>>>>> Barry L. Kline wrote: >>>>>>> that is supposed to gosub into the incoming extension at priority 1. >>>>>>> Versions before 1.6.0.6 would drop into the incoming,i,1 priority if >>>>>>> the requested extension wasn't present in the incoming context. >>>>>> Really strange that Goto and Gosub behave different. >>>>> If Goto behaves that way, that's a bug. As stated in a prior email, >>>>> the "i" extension should only be implicitly invoked when waiting for a >>>>> new extension and the typed extension does not match anything. >>>> FYI: If you take a look at the history of >>>> http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/index.php?page=Asterisk+i+extension you >>>> will find out that the old behavior is there since at least Nov. 2005, >>>> and probably used since then. >>> voip-info.org is best known for being often wrong. >> I think the point being made was that a lot of people thought this was a >> feature, not a bug. >> >> I assume you're asserting the the dev's did not expect this behaviour, >> even if a large group of users did. >> >> That's OK. But there's still the question about why this behaviour is so >> bad/inconsistent/something that it should be changed. Simply labeling it >> a bug is just a conclusion. Why is it a bug??? > > It's a bug, because the "i" extension has a very limited intended usage, and > any additional cases where the "i" extension is implicitly invoked is > therefore a bug. > > This thread has convinced me not to change Goto in 1.6.0, but I absolutely > defend fixing this bug in Gosub, given that I'm the designer of it, and it was > never supposed to fail into the "i" extension.
What about a config option gototriggersinvalid=yes (default=no) in extensions.conf for users which are using this feature? regards klaus _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users