[asterisk-commits] tilghman: branch group/dialplan_aesthetics r75900 - /team/group/dialplan_aest...

[SVN commits to the Asterisk project]

Author: tilghman
Date: Thu Jul 19 08:08:55 2007
New Revision: 75900

URL: http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk?view=rev&rev=75900
Log:
Add documentation as to the comma-delimiter change

Modified:
    team/group/dialplan_aesthetics/UPGRADE.txt

Modified: team/group/dialplan_aesthetics/UPGRADE.txt
URL: http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk/team/group/dialplan_aesthetics/UPGRADE.txt?view=diff&rev=75900&r1=75899&r2=75900
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--- team/group/dialplan_aesthetics/UPGRADE.txt (original)
+++ team/group/dialplan_aesthetics/UPGRADE.txt Thu Jul 19 08:08:55 2007
@@ -35,6 +35,16 @@
   like sin, cos, tan, log, pow, etc. The ability to call external functions
   like CDR(), etc. was also added, without having to use the ${...} notation.
  
+* The delimiter passed to applications has been changed to the comma (','), as
+  that is what people are used to using within extensions.conf.  If you are
+  using realtime extensions, you will need to translate your existing dialplan
+  to use this separator.  To use a literal comma, you need merely to escape it
+  with a backslash ('\').  Another possible side effect is that you may need to
+  remove the obscene level of backslashing that was necessary for the dialplan
+  to work correctly in 1.4 and previous versions.  This should make writing
+  dialplans less painful in the future, albeit with the pain of a one-time
+  conversion.
+
 Voicemail:
 
 * The voicemail configuration values 'maxmessage' and 'minmessage' have