[asterisk-doc] How to write new application for Asterisk by using C

[Peter Beckman]

On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Randy Resnick wrote:

>> Currently, there's not a lot of documentation available for how to
>> develop new Asterisk modules.  I suggest you look at app_skel.c in the
>> source code, as well as the source code for the other applications,
>> functions, etc.  If anyone is volunteering to help document the creation
>> of Asterisk modules, I'm certainly interested.
>
> I'd like to see this happen, too. When I first got things going, I
> wanted to write my own math application to simplify reading bit flags in
> a variable. I finally copied the skel (I guess that's what it's for) and
> was able to do it. The problem was that without looking at the source,
> it was hard to know how certaing functions worked. Sure, I copied the
> args and hoped for the best, but I'd expect a minimal doc to exist if we
> want to see interesting apps evolve.

  I'll create a section in the docs for it.  Randy -- maybe you can throw
  together a quick doc about the things you learned?  5 paragraphs?  I'll
  edit and put it into the DocBook format and put it in the docs.

Beckman
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