[asterisk-users] Manager Interface API's

Douglas Garstang dgarstang at oneeighty.com
Wed Aug 16 12:28:40 MST 2006


Actually, because there's no documentation, I don't have anything that I can use.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dovid Bender [mailto:asteriskusers at dovid.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 12:54 PM
> To: jnovack at stromberg-carlson.org; Asterisk Users Mailing List -
> Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Manager Interface API's
> 
> 
> Some of them write it for them selves and out of the goodness 
> of thier heart 
> will put out there for free. They dont need doc's since they 
> wrote it them 
> selves. Be happy that you got it for free. Do you want people to stop 
> releasing code because others complain ?
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "John Novack" <jnovack at stromberg-carlson.org>
> To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" 
> <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 12:39 PM
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Manager Interface API's
> 
> 
> > I, for one, didn't take his comment as anything other than 
> constructive
> > Lack of documentation is an issue, open source or not.
> > It is an unfortunate situation that many very smart coders 
> understand what 
> > they have created, but are unwilling or unable to supply enough 
> > information for many others to make effective use of their creation
> > How many have struggled through the years with uncommented 
> or poorly 
> > commented code when the original creator is off to greener pastures?
> >
> > JMO
> >
> > John Novack
> >
> >
> > Moises Silva wrote:
> >> Douglas. Please take this as a constructive comment. I 
> have followed
> >> your questions in asterisk-dev and users lists, and you 
> always seem to
> >> make non constructive comments about the people giving 
> code/work for
> >> Free. And you focus in the negative part, never giving  
> importance to
> >> the positive things about it.
> >>
> >> If you dont like something, then change it yourself, they are not
> >> providing a payed service. The source is available AS-IS 
> if you want
> >> it, and if you like it, take it; If you dont, just ignore 
> it, try to
> >> not make peyorative comments.
> >>
> >> Regards
> >>
> >> On 8/15/06, Douglas Garstang <dgarstang at oneeighty.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Well, I don't know about you, but if I have to read the 
> source code to 
> >>> work
> >>> out how it works, I'm going to go and look at someone 
> elses, that may 
> >>> have
> >>> some BASIC documentation and examples.
> >>>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: Don [mailto:sales at xwebfactor.com]
> >>> Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 9:09 AM
> >>> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> >>> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Manager Interface API's
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Probably cause it is someone like most of us sitting at home doing
> >>> it...releasing it for free...so why would we write pages of 
> >>> documentation
> >>> for it?
> >>> If it's open source and it's free...Then offer them some 
> money to make
> >>> documentation for it hehe...
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>> From: Douglas Garstang
> >>> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> >>> Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 11:05 AM
> >>> Subject: [asterisk-users] Manager Interface API's
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Can anyone recommend the best Manager Interface API, 
> putting language
> >>> preferences aside?
> >>>
> >>> The python and perl ones have bupkiss documentation. I 
> can't understand 
> >>> why
> >>> anyone would even write an api and make it publically 
> available without
> >>> documenting it.
> >>>
> >>> Doug.
> >>>
> >>>
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