[asterisk-users] Agentcallbacklogin deprecation

[Carla Schroder]

Ick. Don't WANT to do all that. nooooo. Anyway, according to this it should 
still work in 1.4:
http://www.mail-archive.com/asterisk-users%40lists.digium.com/msg166873.html
"Yes, AgentCallbackLogin is deprecated, but it will not be removed until after 
1.4. "

On Wednesday 20 December 2006 3:25 pm, Lenz wrote:
> You can use Local channels, plus some custom queue_log logging, unless you
> want fancy agent/extension association; in that case you'll have to have
> your fun with the dialplan :)
> l.
>
>
>
> On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 23:51:31 +0100, Carla Schroder <carla at bratgrrl.com>
>
> wrote:
> > Sooo what replaces it? Convoluted dialplans? AEL stuff?
> > Agentcallbacklogin was
> > simple and easy. Hardly anything in Asterisk is simple or easy. Maybe
> > that's
> > why it was removed. :)
> >
> > On Wednesday 20 December 2006 2:21 pm, Lenz wrote:
> >> I would not say that * has been "taken out of the realm of reasonable CC
> >> solutions", luckily there are still a lot of ways to configure * to meet
> >> the most diverse needs, but it's surely a fact that a very convenient
> >> and
> >> used approach being deprecated will be an annoyance for CC designers and
> >> will confuse the novice users. I am sure the developers who took this
> >> decision had the best intentions and the soundest reasons, but the
> >> result
> >> is IMHO a bit of unnecessary complexity.
> >> I happen to look everyday at a lot of queue_log files from a lot of
> >> different CCs, and I'd say that 90% of non-TrixBox users use
> >> Agentcallbacklogin as of today.
> >> l.


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