[OT] [Asterisk-Dev] Wish List / Brain Storm from AstriCon

[Holger Schurig]

> I have to say though, I really do like the idea of Asterython. Holger,
> what do you say? Whose ego do we have to massage to get an Asterython
> dialplan scripting engine started?

I like Python as a language, but from what I know is Python not that 
suited for threaded applications because of some internal equivalent of 
the "Big Kernel Lock", it's just called "Global Interpreter Lock".

See the first paragraph at http://docs.python.org/api/threads.html

If all the interpretation is done in one thread, as suggested before, this 
is not a problem. However, when we want to have scripts running while 
connected, then I fear that one thread is not enought and would become a 
bottleneck.


If we ever want to use something different, we need to think about:

a) Extension (e.g. Pattern) matching, including support for early-dial
b) keeping Contexts?
c) inclusion of other routines?
d) do we want Goto's inside the sections, e.g. with local labels?

So, maybe something comes out that does not resemble on of the current 
scripting languages, but is still nicer to write/debug/recode.


Maybe we look at SER scripts or Bayonne scripts to get ideas ...