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

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Wednesday 19 December 2007 07:22:18 Patrick wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 19:43 -0800, Steve Edwards wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I agree. Reload sip would be the logical thing.
>
> [snip]
>
> > 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."
>
> That makes sense to me. It's also what I'm used to from working with
> other equipment.
>
> > 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
>
> Excellent example. I'll put my 0.2 cents on #1 :)
>
> > Is it too late to fix this for 1.6?
>
> I sincerely hope not. Your example shows that the CLI could use some
> TLC. Let's hope the powers that be agree.

http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=11605

For everything that matches "category verb arguments", this translation
will work fine.  For things which don't, well, they needed to be fixed anyway.

-- 
Tilghman