[asterisk-users] DAHDI aaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrghhhhhhhhh :((((

[Shaun Ruffell]

Anthony Messina wrote:
> On Thursday 09 October 2008 09:57:30 pm Steve Totaro wrote:
>> Now I have not touched any of that code, but to me, it would have been much
>> simpler to change names, then change functionality later.  Make DAHDI a
>> drop in replacement for Zaptel, in fact, if memory serves me correctly that
>> is what someone at Digium explained, it was merely a find and replace
>> operation.
> 
> i agree with the idea that a drop in should have been created, and 
> functionality built from there. 

Hindsight being 20/20, this may have been better.  Although on the off chance that anyone is interested, the line of thought was to lump in all the changes that would require people to touch their configuration files, be it name changes, layouts, etc.., in order to reduce the number of times they had to think about their Zaptel / DAHDI configuration files.  If you're already going through the process of renaming your files and scripts, might as well make all the changes when you upgrade as opposed to keep having to make modifications in stages.  That was the thought anyway.