[asterisk-dev] Parsing in Asterisk

[Sean Bright]

I am probably missing some history, but why doesn't parsing of arguments
happen before the apps even get involved?  Purely for BC reasons?

On 3/12/07, Tilghman Lesher <tilghman at mail.jeffandtilghman.com> wrote:
>
> On Monday 12 March 2007 15:39, Marc Blanchet wrote:
> > > This leads me to my first conclusion:  we need to remove the
> > > transparent
> > > translation, preferring the comma as our argument delimiter.  I am
> > > aware
> > > that this is a significant change and it will require a flag day,
> >
> > suggestion: have a version id of the file somewhere at the beginning.
> > ex: version=2
> > to manage the changes.
> > if version is not present, then fallback to previous syntax.
> > if version is present, then act upon the version number.
> >
> > that way, there is no flag day.
>
> That won't work, because the problem isn't that we'd be parsing the
> configuration file differently but that the applications are parsing
> their arguments differently.
>
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> Tilghman
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sean
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