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

[Philipp Kempgen]

Gordon Henderson schrieb:
> 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.

So what's so irritating about AEL then? You are using a higher
level language to generate extensions.conf as well.


   Philipp Kempgen

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