[asterisk-users] RFC: multiple packages editing asterisk config files

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 12:57:15PM +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I'm lately bothered with the need to provide a set of Asterisk
> configuration files in a package that will be good for a wide range of 
> Asterisk users.
> 
> Asterisk configuration files support #include and a number of other
> interesting tricks, as mentioned in
> http://svn.digium.com/svn/asterisk/branches/1.4/doc/configuration.txt [0].

Where can we find tools to parse Asterisk configuration files?

Asterisk does not provide any library or utility to read configuration
files. The asterisk-gui uses Asterisk itself to both read and write
configuration files.

The FreeIRIS project uses a set of perl module, that are also available
in CPAN, as Asterisk::config
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Asterisk-config/
http://www.freeiris.org/

(Never tried using them)


Next file to look at is modules.conf . modules.conf is one of those
files with a "single section" (or maybe two or three, but many entries
in that section). Mostly the order in modules.conf doesn't count.
However I beleive that in some specific cases the order of entries there
does count.

In addition, of of the entries there are of the same two keys ('load'
and 'unload'). Hence it's imporssible to override an earlier
"assignment" later. This makes module.conf very unmodular (pun not
intended) by nature.

The problem with modules.conf is that a mistake in it can easily get
Asterisk to either fail to load or behave very strange.

Can someone describe to me a real-life situation where the order of 
directives in modules.conf matters?

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