[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Extension Language -- what's it's"status"?

[Sherwood McGowan]

I'm STILL waiting on an answer to my exact same question. That was around 3
weeks ago 

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->From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com 
->[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of 
->John Biundo
->Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 1:13 PM
->To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
->Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Extension Language -- 
->what's it's"status"?
->
->I've been playing with ael a little bit and wondering how 
->much time to devote to it.  Originally, when I read about it, 
->I thought I'd try to convert my extensions.conf files to ael. 
-> But after playing a little bit, I'm not sure that's a good idea.
->
->A couple of observations and questions:
->1. As far as I can tell, there's limited interoperability 
->between existing (extensions.conf) and new (extensions.ael) 
->constructs.  For example, and please correct me if I'm wrong, 
->but I don't believe there's a way to access an ael macro from 
->an extensions.conf dial plan.
->
->To me, this seems to make dabbling with ael harder, since I 
->can't just incrementally add some stuff in ael and use it in 
->my dial plan.
->
->2. I can't see a way to organize my ael dial plan using #include's. 
->Again, for me, this makes experimentation harder since, 
->especially in conjunction with the first point, I effectively 
->have to maintain my entire old conglomerate dial plan in one 
->gigantic ael file.  Again, please correct me if I'm missing something.
->
->All in all, for me, these two points have discouraged me from 
->doing more than dabbling with ael.  I assume the point of 
->including it in 1.2 is to get people to try to use it in a 
->serious "beta test" manner.  I wonder if support for these 
->kind of capabilities is planned?
->
->I really would like to use ael as it seems to have some clear 
->advantages over the existing "language", but I'm reluctant to 
->be too far out on the bleeding edge without a little more 
->insight into where this feature is headed.
->
->Thanks for any input.
->
->Oh, and this is my first post here, so forgive me if I put 
->this in the wrong place.  Does this belong on the developers list?
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