[asterisk-users] Asterisk with or without OpenSER

[Alex Balashov]

Steve Totaro wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Gordon Henderson
> <gordon+asterisk at drogon.net> wrote:
>> 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
>>
> 
> Personal preference and propaganda.  If you like XML and are
> comfortable with it, then why is it not suitable?

Not terse, high overhead to parse, difficult to read.  There are 
objective reasons why it is ridiculous apart from "personal preference 
and propaganda."

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