[asterisk-users] Asterisk with or without OpenSER

[Gordon Henderson]

On Wed, 19 Nov 2008, 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?
>
> Thread quickly falls into this or that programming language is the
> best.  Windows vs Linux, Mac vs PC.......

Indeed, and I forgot the ;-)

See: http://www.phespirit.info/montypython/four_yorkshiremen.htm

Gordon