[asterisk-users] Upgrade to Asterisk 1.4 - it's one year's old!

[John Novack]

Steve Edwards wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Dec 2007, Johansson Olle E wrote:
>
>   
>> I wonder if there are any major obstacles for upgrading.
>>     
>
> How about the change from a bad command line interface to a really bad 
> command line interface?
>
> I mean, Seriously? (in a Grey's Anatomy kind of way...)
>
> The old syntax was inconsistent -- "show manager command" vs "sip show 
> channels" and just plain bad -- for example "sip reload" should have been 
> "reload sip."
>
> The new syntax continues down the noun-verb path instead of correcting 
> itself and using verb-noun like most other applications (MySQL, GDB, 
> Oracle, etc.)
>
> Then, just to make it worse, now I have to learn which commands somebody 
> (arbitrarily) decided are "core" and which are not -- for what benefit? 
> Certainly doesn't make MY job easier!
>
> Approach the command line like a noob. I want Asterisk to show me 
> something so I'll start the command line with "show." I'm not quite sure 
> what I'm doing, so I'll press <TAB> to see what I can show. Oh, "channel" 
> looks like what I want. Hmm, too much. Maybe I should have qualified what 
> kind of channel I'm looking for BEFORE the word "channel."
>
> Here's a suggestion -- stop thinking like a parser and start thinking like 
> a person :)
>
> Which makes more sense (at least in English)?
>
>  	1) show black dogs -- show sip channels
>  	2) black show dogs -- sip show channels
>  	3) dogs black show -- channels sip show
>  	4) show dogs black -- show channels sip
>  	5) black dogs show -- sip channels show
>  	6) dogs show black -- channels show sip
>
> Is it too late to fix this for 1.6?
>   
Are there going to be Black Dogs in 1.6??

WOOF

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