[Asterisk-Dev] Dialplan syntax changes.. Option: work on a radically different design..

[alex at pilosoft.com]

On Wed, 18 May 2005, Tilghman Lesher wrote:

> On Wednesday 18 May 2005 09:41, alex at pilosoft.com wrote:
> > On Wed, 18 May 2005, Brian West wrote:
> > > > So, can it make sense to make the Dialplan look more like C?
> >
> > Also, question this: If we are going to move toward perl-ish language
> > for dialpan, do we need really dialplan? Would integrating, say,
> > perlagi with asterisk in a way mod_perl (as in, no overhead) is
> > integrated be able to replace dialplan altogether?
> 
> We are not going to commit to changing the dialplan this radically until
> there is a working implementation.  Sorry, but I doubt most people want
> to break their existing systems simply because you want to force
> everybody into a new paradigm.
>
> To misquote a popular movie, "Show Me The Code!".
Obviously. However, whoever is going to be implementing new (C-ish or 
perl-ish or whatever-ish) dialplan should think about bigger picture and 
consider against reinventing the wheel.

And, obviously, we'll need perl (or whatever-the-new-language-is) 
implementation of old dialplan syntax, so nobody gets left in the cold.

Unfortunately I don't have available cycles to do this ;(