[asterisk-users] weird undocumented extensions such as s-BUSY

[John Novack]

Barzilai Spinak wrote:
> So, in sum. It's just an Asterisk "idiom" or "best(?) practice" that 
> has become somewhat common.
> Every time I need to do the smallest thing in Asterisk I have to 
> Google for 3 hours and read voip-info for the more hours, and then 
> read old mailing list post for 3 more, until I can filter out *real 
> information* from the background noise.
>
> Maybe it's just me... I don't settle with the first solution that 
> "SeemsToWorkForNow, even though I have no idea Why or How"
>
> Ah... the wonders of Early 21st Century Web Fashion and documenting 
> everything in big lumps of Little-Ultra-Hyper-Linked-Wiki-pages with 
> contradictory and obsolete info!!!!  Hopefully it will end some day 
> and the world will come back to its senses.
>
> BarZ
Pretty much - Not restricted to Asterisk though - rampant in Open Source 
in general, and to a lesser extent in the computer field as a whole.
I have been struggling for a while with no good answer to come to the 
conclusion that Asterisk 1.4 can't be installed on CentOs 3.8
There is no information associated with the download, such as "system 
requirements" That would make it too easy
After googling and searching for hours/days, solving one problem 
compiling Zaptel, breezing through the Libpri, run into another brick 
wall because some little POS called ptlib-config doesn't exist, and no 
clue where it is, or SHOULD it even exist,
So on to CentOS 4.4. and we'll see what that brings!!!!

Don't expect the world to come (back?) to its senses either
This is as good as it gets!

John Novack