[Asterisk-Dev] MeetMe Improvement

[dking at pimpsoft.com]

For ease of use and varible formating, wouldn't XML be a valid 
option? We are talking about inheritable context correct? Seems to me 
xml would work great if I'm understanding you.

 - D

On 10 Jul 2004 at 13:47, James Golovich wrote:

> I thought it was clear what I proposed, but I'll go over it.  Something
> more like the iax.conf, sip.conf, etc. that has independant config
> contexts for each entity.
> 
> We have 3 different types of config files now.  Heres my rundown on them:
> 
> - One Context inherited top down
> The one used by zapata.conf, one context topdown where everything
> inherits the config above unless overridden
> 
> - One entity per line
> Then we have the one context with single lines representing entities,
> these are not very scalable because you can only put so much information
> on one line without making it confusing.  (voicemail.conf, agents.conf,
> meetme.conf)
> 
> - One Context per entity 
> Then there is the one context per entity method that I alluded to in my
> previous email.  Of course there are downsides to everything, if
> everything varies from the default the config file will be much larger,
> but you can reorder the contexts and add/remove them without worrying what
> will happen to the rest of the config
> 
> James
> 
> On Sat, 10 Jul 2004, Marc Olivier Chouinard wrote:
> 
> > What do you propose then ? 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: asterisk-dev-admin at lists.digium.com
> > [mailto:asterisk-dev-admin at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of James Golovich
> > Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2004 12:12 PM
> > To: asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com
> > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Dev] MeetMe Improvement
> > 
> > 
> > On Sat, 10 Jul 2004, Marc Olivier Chouinard wrote:
> > 
> > > Here is a sample of a future Conference app could look like. It 
> > > support multiple user with different limit/pin for each users.  I 
> > > based it on the zapata.conf with the channel setup, userid => create 
> > > the user base on the lastest info he got from the previous entry.
> > > 
> > > I'll like your comment on it, should we look at another direction or ??? 
> > 
> > I don't think inheriting the above config entries is that great of an idea.
> > I'd much rather see independant config contexts for each conference.
> > 
> > It's slightly easier to build config parser/generators that don't depend on
> > specific order of entries, also for the newer users that type of config file
> > can be difficult to wrap their brains around.
> > 
> 
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