[Asterisk-Users] asterisk gui?

[Roger Hanson]

>----- Original Message ----- 
>rom: "dean collins" <dean at collins.net.pr>
>To: "Oliver Stone" <godvoip at gmail.com>; "Asterisk Users Mailing List - 
>Non-Commercial Discussion" <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
>Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 9:39 AM
>Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] asterisk gui?
>

>Oliver, I've offered a bounty for someone to document a newbies 'how 
>to'
>guide. (you're welcome to kick in if you like so far it is at $220)
>
>This guide is about half finished and has helped a number of people
>immensely.
>
>The Voxbox guys have done a great job getting the product up and 
>running
>but are flat out servicing commercial customers so this was a nice way
>to help out.
>
>Check back on the wikki in about 1 weeks time for the final document.
>
>
>Cheers,
>Dean
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
>[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Oliver
>Stone
>Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 10:20 AM
>To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
>Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] asterisk gui?
>
I> had to give up after attempt to install AMP.. It's got very nice
>user interface, that is, AFTER you have sucessfully installed it.. I
>see it's got great potential, but current release is very difficult to
>install, even with the "newbie guide".
 >If you have fewer than 10 extensions to configure, it's probably not
>worth your effort to going thru all the trouble to install AMP.,
>hoping you didn't screw up anything during the install process. .
>
>Just wondering how difficult it would be for AMP devs to develop a
>install wizard or a batch file that  can automatically execute the
>install and download necessary dependencies... until then, I guess
>I'll be continuing to manually config my asteisk files....
>
>
>On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 23:12:00 -0700, Brian <lists001 at brianchristie.com>
>wrote:
> > Perhaps rather than a GUI we should be wanting an IDE (as in
Integrated
> > Development Environment, not Intelligent Drive Electronics . . .
bloody
> > overlapping acronyms . . . but I digress . . . ).
> >
> > Even some basic syntax highlighting would improve the readability of
> > extensions.conf immensely. Anyone know how to make THAT work in vim?
> > I've hacked one together for UltraEdit that works reasonably well,
but
> > that's a Windows editor.
>
> Jim,
> Several months ago I was working on a VIM Asterisk syntax highlighting
file,
> but stopped working on it due to lack of interest. I might try to add
some
> stuff to it again if I have some spare time later this week.
>
> What I had done can be found at http://snurl.com/asterisk_syntax_vim .
> Contributions are welcome; just hit the edit button on the wiki :)



I'm not sure the new newbie how-to is necessary anymore.  Yes, I did 
offer a contribution for it's production.

The new "newbie install guide" the voxbox folks made works perfectly.
http://amp.voxbox.ca/docs/AMP_Installation_Guide_v1.0.1.pdf
All you have to do is follow the directions step-by-step.  If you get 
errors, post a message on their forum or mailing list.  They've been 
very friendly and helpful to me and other questions I've seen posted.

I've been able to follow the instructions and successfully install 
AMP/Asterisk as shown in their guide multiple times.  There was just 1 
work-around I needed to perform when installing mpg123 (but I would have 
run into that using the asterisk install guides as well).

I agree that a microsoft-ish install wizard would be easy, but then you 
don't learn anything other than: "Click next to continue."  But then 
there's all the learning that has to be done with AMP/Asterisk.