[asterisk-users] Case-sensitivity of Dialplan variables.

[Michael L. Young]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Matthew Jordan" <mjordan at digium.com>
> To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 3, 2012 12:17:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Case-sensitivity of Dialplan variables.
> 
> From Mark's original e-mail:
> 
> "Some of you might be eager to propose a configuration option to
> decide which it should be. I'm sick of having hundreds of options
> in Asterisk to slightly tweak the behavior one way or another. This
> needs to go one way or the other, not be configurable."
> 
> I can't overstate how much I agree with this.  A configuration option
> to
> 'tweak' the behavior in pbx.c is much more likely to introduce
> problems than
> solve them.  If a clear consensus cannot be reached, I'd err on the
> side
> of doing nothing than put in yet another configuration option.

I agree that a configuration option is not the solution.  I am not seeing what the big deal is.  Software changes between major releases.  Someone is not going to, or at least they shouldn't if their livelihood depends on it, upgrade their machines without doing the proper preparation for upgrading.  That means reading the UPGRADE.txt file and outlining what needs to be done to upgrade their system if there are features they need in the new version or simply want to be on the latest version.  Then they should test those changes as well before putting it into production.

We are probably a year away from seeing a release for the version of Asterisk where this change would occur.  We are two years away from an LTS version of Asterisk.  So, I think there would be plenty of time for evaluation and testing to be performed by those affected.  Especially, as in the case of what Raj mentioned at the beginning of his prior email, not too many people may even be affected by this change just like he won't be.

Michael L. Young
(elguero)

PS:  If you can't tell, I am really for this change and doing so without any configuration options :)