[asterisk-users] Any reason to *not* use AEL? (Also, MixMonitor q)

[Eric Wieling]

Andrew Kohlsmith (lists) wrote:
> On June 3, 2008 09:21:48 am Jay Moore wrote:
>> I am building a new Asterisk server here at the office, and I'm
>> wondering if there are any downsides to creating my dialplan with AEL.
>> It seems more intuitive (to me), but I'm not sure if there are any
>> pitfalls I need to be aware of first.
> 
> Community support is the big one.  Personally I think AEL's a solution looking 
> for a problem.  Ask Leif Madsen about what he can make a standard dialplan 
> do.  :-)

Oh, I think AEL is a great idea.  I expect we will start migrating our 
macros into AEL when we upgrade to 1.6 (maybe 6 mo - 1 yr from now). 
I'll start with our extensive, spaghetti code macros.  I doubt we will 
ever migrate *everything* to AEL, no need to with the way we have our 
extensions.conf setup.  i.e.  Set channel variables, run macro.

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