[asterisk-users] Agentcallbacklogin deprecation

[Paul Hales]

Maybe if we make enough noise it can be replaced with something better,
rather than just thrown away.

Agentcallabacklogin is great  - easy to setup, and provides some useful
functionality.

PaulH

On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 19:09 -0800, Carla Schroder wrote:
> Ick. Don't WANT to do all that. nooooo. Anyway, according to this it should 
> still work in 1.4:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/asterisk-users%40lists.digium.com/msg166873.html
> "Yes, AgentCallbackLogin is deprecated, but it will not be removed until after 
> 1.4. "
> 
> On Wednesday 20 December 2006 3:25 pm, Lenz wrote:
> > You can use Local channels, plus some custom queue_log logging, unless you
> > want fancy agent/extension association; in that case you'll have to have
> > your fun with the dialplan :)
> > l.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 23:51:31 +0100, Carla Schroder <carla at bratgrrl.com>
> >
> > wrote:
> > > Sooo what replaces it? Convoluted dialplans? AEL stuff?
> > > Agentcallbacklogin was
> > > simple and easy. Hardly anything in Asterisk is simple or easy. Maybe
> > > that's
> > > why it was removed. :)
> > >
> > > On Wednesday 20 December 2006 2:21 pm, Lenz wrote:
> > >> I would not say that * has been "taken out of the realm of reasonable CC
> > >> solutions", luckily there are still a lot of ways to configure * to meet
> > >> the most diverse needs, but it's surely a fact that a very convenient
> > >> and
> > >> used approach being deprecated will be an annoyance for CC designers and
> > >> will confuse the novice users. I am sure the developers who took this
> > >> decision had the best intentions and the soundest reasons, but the
> > >> result
> > >> is IMHO a bit of unnecessary complexity.
> > >> I happen to look everyday at a lot of queue_log files from a lot of
> > >> different CCs, and I'd say that 90% of non-TrixBox users use
> > >> Agentcallbacklogin as of today.
> > >> l.
> 
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