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

[Johansson Olle E]

19 dec 2007 kl. 04.43 skrev Steve Edwards:

> 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?

Steve,
While I don't believe the CLI syntax stops you from upgrading, you are
joining a very old discussion. Please discuss this on asterisk-dev if
you want to re-open it. There's also an open bug in the bug tracker that
you can help resolving.

The old way was a mess. We had two different systems, one like your
old "show xxxx" and one syntax starting with the module name. We had
to move forward with only one syntax and decided to go for "modulename  
verb"
which is not human language-like, but we haven't really clamed that the
CLI is a human language parser. Maybe we should go for an avatar
approach...

-"Hello, I'm your Asterisk assistant. What do you want to do today?"

-"Why do you want to reload SIP? Having a bad day, are you?"

- "Are you really sure you want to load the IAX2 module? Don't
    you prefer meeting your shrink instead? I can schedule a meeting?"

- "Please don't hurt my calls that way, don't stop Asterisk now!"

I can hear the Allison voices coming out of my system...

I do understand the pain with changing the CLI though, I hate to switch
from Asterisk 1.0 to 1.2 to 1.4 and trunk and have different commands.
Old men have a problem learning they say to me... :-)

Thanks for your feedback!
/O