[asterisk-users] Gosub behavior change <=1.6.0.5 to 1.6.0.6

[Eric Wieling, Asteria Solutions Group]

Why not expand the usage of the i extension?  If not in 1.6.0, then some 
later 1.6.  Call it a feature enhancement.

Tilghman Lesher wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 February 2009 11:19:08 sean darcy wrote:
>> Tilghman Lesher wrote:
>>> On Wednesday 25 February 2009 09:51:23 Klaus Darilion wrote:
>>>> Tilghman Lesher schrieb:
>>>>> On Tuesday 24 February 2009 16:07:52 Klaus Darilion wrote:
>>>>>> Barry L. Kline wrote:
>>>>>>> that is supposed to gosub into the incoming extension at priority 1.
>>>>>>> Versions before 1.6.0.6 would drop into the incoming,i,1 priority if
>>>>>>> the requested extension wasn't present in the incoming context.
>>>>>> Really strange that Goto and Gosub behave different.
>>>>> If Goto behaves that way, that's a bug.  As stated in a prior email,
>>>>> the "i" extension should only be implicitly invoked when waiting for a
>>>>> new extension and the typed extension does not match anything.
>>>> FYI: If you take a look at the history of
>>>> http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/index.php?page=Asterisk+i+extension you
>>>> will find out that the old behavior is there since at least Nov. 2005,
>>>> and probably used since then.
>>> voip-info.org is best known for being often wrong.
>> I think the point being made was that a lot of people thought this was a
>> feature, not a bug.
>>
>> I assume you're asserting the the dev's did not expect this behaviour,
>> even if a large group of users did.
>>
>> That's OK. But there's still the question about why this behaviour is so
>> bad/inconsistent/something that it should be changed. Simply labeling it
>> a bug is just a conclusion. Why is it a bug???
> 
> It's a bug, because the "i" extension has a very limited intended usage, and
> any additional cases where the "i" extension is implicitly invoked is
> therefore a bug.
> 
> This thread has convinced me not to change Goto in 1.6.0, but I absolutely
> defend fixing this bug in Gosub, given that I'm the designer of it, and it was
> never supposed to fail into the "i" extension.
> 


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