[asterisk-users] What do you use? .conf or AEL?

[Gordon Henderson]

On Wed, 11 Feb 2009, Alan Lord (News) wrote:

> That was quite an interesting set of responses. I didn't get any
> impression that there is a strong preference either way.

I asked the same question some time back too... Got a few replies, and now 
(as then), all my systems are 100% .conf (or dialplan code, whatever you 
want to call it)

John Lees reply did rather irriate me - because he gave no explanation, or 
justification for it - hence my own terse reply!

I have some huge dialplans with 1000's of lines of code in them, but most 
of it is actually computer generated - as I said in a post some time back: 
"PHP is my AEL"... I'll code something by hand, then get PHP to generate 
multiple instances of it, rewriting my extensions.conf file every time.

I haven't yet had to resort to AEL or AGI and personally I'm all for 
keeping the "core" as simple as possible - less code to go wrong and all 
that.

This to me seems OK to me, as once a system is installed, the changes to 
it are infrequent, and a reload takes a fraction of a second.

Good luck with whatever approach you choose!

Gordon