[Asterisk-Users] CVS HEAD behavior change: Beware!

[Kristian Kielhofner]

Eric Wieling aka ManxPower wrote:
> TWV wrote:
> 
>> Just wondering... what is the idea behind this change?
>> And what should we use instead of jumping?
>> Can you give an example?
> 
> 
> Jumping to a specific priority is both confusing and limiting. 
> Applications are now starting to set variables instead of jumping.  For 
> exmaple Dial would jump to the current priority + 101 when it got a BUSY 
> and jump to the current priority + 1 on ANY other condition.  Very 
> limiting.  If instead Dial always went to the next priority, but set a 
> variable, maybe called DIALSTATUS, to provide information about the 
> result of the call, then we have a MUCH more flexible method to handle 
> the various results of a Dial.

There is always DIALSTATUS...


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Kristian Kielhofner