[asterisk-users] Asterisk with or without OpenSER

[Gordon Henderson]

On Wed, 19 Nov 2008, Alex Balashov wrote:

> mail-lists wrote:
>> Steve,
>>
>> Hijacking this post here - How 'good' is freeswitch currently. I'm
>> looking for some sort of SIP proxy and have looked into openser and ser.
>> Freeswitch seems to have more functionality than these and it seems a
>> lot easier to configure. I particularly like the xml config files, etc.
>
> What do you mean by functionality?  Are you looking for low-level or
> high-level functionality?
>
> Also, XML is not a reasonable format for config files.  I don't know
> what sipping-the-property-file-Kool-Aid J2EE droids decided that, but
> it's made me like UNIX a lot less than I did before now that they're
> proliferating.

The downhill slide started someone someone thought it was a good idea to 
put curly brackets into config files...

Gordon