Re: [asterisk-users] Case-sensitivity of Dialplan variables.

2012-10-03 Thread Leif Madsen
On 03/10/12 03:01 PM, Michael L. Young wrote: We are probably a year away from seeing a release for the version of Asterisk where this change would occur. We are two years away from an LTS version of Asterisk. So, I think there would be plenty of time for evaluation and testing to be perform

Re: [asterisk-users] Case-sensitivity of Dialplan variables.

2012-10-03 Thread Leif Madsen
On 03/10/12 11:49 AM, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote: In short, my vote goes for case-sensitivity with a grace period for switching over. I disagree. Migrating between major versions should never be something like installing Asterisk 12 over an existing Asterisk 11 (or earlier) system. It shoul

Re: [asterisk-users] Case-sensitivity of Dialplan variables.

2012-10-03 Thread Leif Madsen
On 02/10/12 09:02 PM, Vladimir Mikhelson wrote: First you need to consider compatibility with currently supported packages which include auto-generated dial plans like AsteriskNow, PIAF, etc. If you plan to break their functionality you need to at least coordinate your move with the maintainers

Re: [asterisk-users] Case-sensitivity of Dialplan variables.

2012-10-03 Thread Michael L. Young
- Original Message - > From: "Matthew Jordan" > To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" > > Sent: Wednesday, October 3, 2012 12:17:56 PM > Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Case-sensitivity of Dialplan variables. > > From

Re: [asterisk-users] Case-sensitivity of Dialplan variables.

2012-10-03 Thread Matthew Jordan
- Original Message - > From: "Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)" > To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com > Sent: Wednesday, October 3, 2012 10:49:30 AM > Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Case-sensitivity of Dialplan variables. > > So here's the proposal: make c

Re: [asterisk-users] Case-sensitivity of Dialplan variables.

2012-10-03 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Tuesday 02 Oct 2012, Mark Michelson wrote: >[snip] > Some of you might be eager to propose a configuration option to > decide which it should be. I'm sick of having hundreds of options > in Asterisk to slightly tweak the behavior one way or another. This > needs to go one way or the other, not b

Re: [asterisk-users] Case-sensitivity of Dialplan variables.

2012-10-03 Thread Michael L. Young
- Original Message - > From: "Ira" > To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" > > Sent: Wednesday, October 3, 2012 3:21:50 AM > Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Case-sensitivity of Dialplan variables. > > At 07:59 PM 10/2/201

Re: [asterisk-users] Case-sensitivity of Dialplan variables.

2012-10-03 Thread kenner
> While true that most users are probably not programmers, most people > administering Asterisk would be system / network admins, correct? > System admins and networking admins are used to working in > environments such as Linux where variables and file names are case > sensitive. I'm in favor of

Re: [asterisk-users] Case-sensitivity of Dialplan variables.

2012-10-03 Thread A J Stiles
On Monday 01 October 2012, Danny Nicholas wrote: > I propose that dialplan variables need to be made consistent in their > evaluation. We need to choose either to be always case-sensitive or always > case-insensitive. The problem is, I don't know which of these changes would > have a larger effect

Re: [asterisk-users] Case-sensitivity of Dialplan variables.

2012-10-03 Thread giovanni.v
Il 01/10/2012 23.15, Mark Michelson ha scritto: https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-20163 The issue involves case-sensitivity of channel and global variables in the dialplan. +1 for case-sensitive variables everywhere. I'm glad to see that this inconsistency issue will be finally

Re: [asterisk-users] Case-sensitivity of Dialplan variables.

2012-10-03 Thread Ira
At 07:59 PM 10/2/2012, you wrote: > > Given that many of the users were not programmers and didn't likely > grow up in a case sensitive world I'd also vote for case > insensitivity. I fall into that category, I grew up with dBase, > Clipper and VB and case issues get me all the time when I progra

Re: [asterisk-users] Case-sensitivity of Dialplan variables.

2012-10-03 Thread Hans Witvliet
On Tue, 2012-10-02 at 17:11 -0700, Ira wrote: > At 02:19 PM 10/1/2012, you wrote: > >So respond here and let me know what you think. I got a couple of replies on > >the -dev list and they said that this would be good to put out on the -users > >list too. > > > >Mark Michelson > > > >In true Republi

Re: [asterisk-users] Case-sensitivity of Dialplan variables.

2012-10-02 Thread Olivier
2012/10/1 Mark Michelson > Hi! > > I've been confronted with an interesting issue to resolve. The > issue is located here: > > https://issues.asterisk.org/**jira/browse/ASTERISK-20163 > > The issue involves case-sensitivity of channel and gl

Re: [asterisk-users] Case-sensitivity of Dialplan variables.

2012-10-02 Thread Vladimir Mikhelson
On 10/2/2012 9:12 PM, Warren Selby wrote: > On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Mark Michelson > wrote: > > Hi! > > I've been confronted with an interesting issue to resolve. The > issue is located here: > > > > > So respond here and let me know what y

Re: [asterisk-users] Case-sensitivity of Dialplan variables.

2012-10-02 Thread Michael L. Young
- Original Message - > From: "Ira" > To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" > > Sent: Tuesday, October 2, 2012 8:11:32 PM > Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Case-sensitivity of Dialplan variables. > > > Given that many

Re: [asterisk-users] Case-sensitivity of Dialplan variables.

2012-10-02 Thread Warren Selby
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Mark Michelson wrote: > Hi! > > I've been confronted with an interesting issue to resolve. The > issue is located here: > > > So respond here and let me know what you think. I got a couple of replies > on the -dev list and they said that this would be good to put

Re: [asterisk-users] Case-sensitivity of Dialplan variables.

2012-10-02 Thread Michael L. Young
- Original Message - > From: "Vladimir Mikhelson" > To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" > > Sent: Tuesday, October 2, 2012 9:02:18 PM > Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Case-sensitivity of Dialplan variables. > > >

Re: [asterisk-users] Case-sensitivity of Dialplan variables.

2012-10-02 Thread Vladimir Mikhelson
On 10/1/2012 4:15 PM, Mark Michelson wrote: > Hi! > > I've been confronted with an interesting issue to resolve. The > issue is located here: > > https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-20163 > > The issue involves case-sensitivity of channel and global variables > in the dialplan. Curren

Re: [asterisk-users] Case-sensitivity of Dialplan variables.

2012-10-02 Thread Ira
At 02:19 PM 10/1/2012, you wrote: So respond here and let me know what you think. I got a couple of replies on the -dev list and they said that this would be good to put out on the -users list too. Mark Michelson In true Republican fashion, I'm going to vote for case-insensitivity. Given that

Re: [asterisk-users] Case-sensitivity of Dialplan variables.

2012-10-02 Thread j...@millican.us
] Case-sensitivity of Dialplan variables. Hi! I've been confronted with an interesting issue to resolve. The issue is located here: https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-20163 The issue involves case-sensitivity of channel and global variables in the dialplan. Current behavior

Re: [asterisk-users] Case-sensitivity of Dialplan variables.

2012-10-01 Thread Jeremy Kister
On 10/1/2012 5:15 PM, Mark Michelson wrote: ("HASH" would be evaluated properly but "hash" would not). My personal opinion is that all variable evaluations should be case-sensitive. +1 case insensitivity to accommodate carelessness is evil. much easier for NoOp to tell us SIP_CODEC is unset,

Re: [asterisk-users] Case-sensitivity of Dialplan variables.

2012-10-01 Thread Danny Nicholas
-Original Message- From: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Mark Michelson Sent: Monday, October 01, 2012 4:15 PM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: [asterisk-users] Case-sensitivity of Dialplan variables. Hi

[asterisk-users] Case-sensitivity of Dialplan variables.

2012-10-01 Thread Mark Michelson
Hi! I've been confronted with an interesting issue to resolve. The issue is located here: https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-20163 The issue involves case-sensitivity of channel and global variables in the dialplan. Current behavior is as follows: 1) Variables created in the dial