[asterisk-dev] Why is "core show channels concise" deprecated?

[Bryant Zimmerman]

Danny Nicholas pointed out to me the info below about the concise option be 
deprecated. My question is if it is going to pulled long term why is the 
verbose option truncating the information. They both have a different 
purpose the verbose option is not useful as it does not return the full 
data. This would kill all of our outside channel monitoring code that uses 
the asterisk -rx "core show channels concise". What is the thinking behind 
this move. 
 From cli.c (asterisk 10)
            e->command = "core show channels [concise|verbose|count]";
                e->usage =
                        "Usage: core show channels 
[concise|verbose|count]\n"
                        "       Lists currently defined channels and some 
information about them. If\n"
                        "       'concise' is specified, the format is 
abridged and in a more easily\n"
                        "       machine parsable format. If 'verbose' is 
specified, the output includes\n"
                        "       more and longer fields. If 'count' is 
specified only the channel and call\n"
                        "       count is output.\n"
                        "       The 'concise' option is deprecated and will 
be removed from future versions\n"
                        "       of Asterisk.\n";
                return NULL;

Thanks

Bryant 
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