[asterisk-users] Upgrade to Asterisk 1.4 - it's one year's old!

[James Collier]

I think it should be "core dogs show black".

Seriously though, I think you make a good point.



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De: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com]En nombre de Steve
Edwards
Enviado el: miercoles, 19 de diciembre de 2007 4:43
Para: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Asunto: Re: [asterisk-users] Upgrade to Asterisk 1.4 - it's one year's
old!


On Sat, 15 Dec 2007, Johansson Olle E wrote:

> I wonder if there are any major obstacles for upgrading.

How about the change from a bad command line interface to a really bad 
command line interface?

I mean, Seriously? (in a Grey's Anatomy kind of way...)

The old syntax was inconsistent -- "show manager command" vs "sip show 
channels" and just plain bad -- for example "sip reload" should have been 
"reload sip."

The new syntax continues down the noun-verb path instead of correcting 
itself and using verb-noun like most other applications (MySQL, GDB, 
Oracle, etc.)

Then, just to make it worse, now I have to learn which commands somebody 
(arbitrarily) decided are "core" and which are not -- for what benefit? 
Certainly doesn't make MY job easier!

Approach the command line like a noob. I want Asterisk to show me 
something so I'll start the command line with "show." I'm not quite sure 
what I'm doing, so I'll press <TAB> to see what I can show. Oh, "channel" 
looks like what I want. Hmm, too much. Maybe I should have qualified what 
kind of channel I'm looking for BEFORE the word "channel."

Here's a suggestion -- stop thinking like a parser and start thinking like 
a person :)

Which makes more sense (at least in English)?

 	1) show black dogs -- show sip channels
 	2) black show dogs -- sip show channels
 	3) dogs black show -- channels sip show
 	4) show dogs black -- show channels sip
 	5) black dogs show -- sip channels show
 	6) dogs show black -- channels show sip

Is it too late to fix this for 1.6?

Thanks in advance,
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