[asterisk-dev] Asterisk 11 configuration files

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Matthew  Jordan <mjordan at digium.com> wrote:
>
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>> From: "Tilghman Lesher" <tilghman at meg.abyt.es>
>> To: "Asterisk Developers Mailing List" <asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com>
>> Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 10:56:09 AM
>> Subject: Re: [asterisk-dev] Asterisk 11 configuration files
>>
>>
>> It's additionally worth noting that several modules have multiple
>> configuration file names, e.g. queues.conf & queuerules.conf,
>> sip.conf
>> & sip_notify.conf, iax.conf & iaxprov.conf.  You cannot go with a
>> standard of naming configuration files based upon their module names
>> AND BE CONSISTENT, if some modules have more than one standard
>> configuration file.
>>
>> I agree with Leif, we probably shouldn't be naming configuration
>> files
>> by their module names, and this is just one more reason.
>>
>
> Playing devil's advocate here... what would happen if we did what
> Steve suggested and wrote a new voicemail module?  Say, res_voicemail?
>
> There's a good chance that we'd want to get away from the configuration
> scheme that app_voicemail currently uses, i.e., defining voicemail
> user mailboxes as a single key/value pair.  More likely, we'd want to
> use context templates to allow administrator's to define voicemail
> users.  That radically changes how the voicemail configuration file is
> parsed and interpreted.

Yes, it would be.  Please checkout minivm.conf.sample in the configs directory.

-Tilghman