[asterisk-dev] More "concise" CLI commands - something we really want?

[Luigi Rizzo]

On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 12:43:40PM +0100, Johansson Olle E wrote:
> While browsing the bug tracker today, I found a patch for adding more  
> "concise" commands to the SIP channel.
> 
> My personal opinion is that I don't like adapting the CLI for machine  
> parsing. If we're about to do that, we might
> as well convert all CLI listings in one big janitor project. But we  
> already have the manager for that kind of
> communication - machine-parseable. We could easily write a wrapper  
> for /utils that replaces "asterisk -x"
> for web applications and other scripts.
> 
> I propose that we deprecate the existing "concise" commands in trunk,  
> don't accept new ones and refer
> users and developers to our lovely AMI solution.

completely agreed.

luigi