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
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