[asterisk-dev] Asterisk 11 configuration files

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 01:10:53PM -0400, Andrew Latham wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Matthew  Jordan <mjordan at digium.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Tilghman Lesher" <tilghman at meg.abyt.es>
> >> To: "Asterisk Developers Mailing List" <asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com>
> >> Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 11:57:11 AM
> >> Subject: Re: [asterisk-dev] Asterisk 11 configuration files
> >>
> >>
> >> Yes, it would be.  Please checkout minivm.conf.sample in the configs
> >> directory.
> >>
> >
> > I'm well aware of app_minivm and minivm.conf.sample.  Simply dropping the
> > 'res_' or 'app_' seems to miss the point that Leif and others were shooting for.
> >
> > <quote>
> > Lets come up with a standard for filenames, and switch everything over
> > to using it. I think I would actually prefer things to be motif.conf,
> > dahdi.conf, voicemail.conf, corosync.conf, etc... than to match up with
> > the module name.
> > <quote>
> >
> > It sounded as if folks were intending that configuration file names
> > should mirror the functionality, and not the name of the module.
> > The point is that going to that model - which is certainly simpler and
> > more intuitive - has drawbacks.  That's all.

> 
> Or as another option, define the config used in asterisk.conf or
> module.conf for each module.

Configuration files are an important part of the interface. Please don't
rename them unless you have a very good reason. Think of the poor user
upgrading a system, when suddenly things fail silently, because chan_sip
does not find its configuration file.

A configuration file with an unexpected name is even worse. Suppose
someone manages to set the config for chan_sip to be iax.conf or
users.conf.

Please provide a system that is easy to write a configuration interface
to without having to invoke Asterisk itself for the parsing.

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