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[ser at man.szczecin.pl]

Hi,

Wy there is so many ugly constructions in FS configuration files? For
example configuration of a gateway looks like this:

<include>
<gateway name="asterlink.com">
<param name="username" value="cluecon"/>
<param name="realm" value="asterlink.com"/>
<param name="from-user" value="cluecon"/>
...

This is not good structure design. I know that it gives extreme
flexibility for developers, but config files are for admins not software
developers. IMHO it should look like this:

<include>
<gateway name="asterlink.com">
<username>cluecon</username/>
<realm>asterlink.com</realm/>
<from-user>cluecon</from-user/>
...

Such structure + schema file would be a great help in configuration
editing (autocompletion and syntax check).

greetings,
Seweryn



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[msc at freeswitch.org]

Hehe, you just stepped on a land mine! There was A LOT of discussion
about this. The simple fact of the matter is that there was no way to
make everyone happy so the devs chose a layout that might be "ugly" to
some. The key is that XML isn't really "pretty" anyway. The point of
XML is that it needs to be machine readable AND human readable. Since
humans are (usually) smarter than machines it was decided that machine
readable is more important. Besides, when all of the GUIs get built
you won't be hacking XML very much - if at all.

I promise you this: even if you think something is weird or curious
about how FreeSWITCH works there is ALWAYS a good reason for the
design decisions. Always. Nothing in FS was left to chance or caprice.

-MC

PS - this was probably a better topic for the -dev list.

Sent from my iPhone

On Dec 23, 2008, at 6:20 AM, Seweryn Niemiec <ser@man.szczecin.pl>
wrote:

[ser at man.szczecin.pl]

On Tue, 2008-12-23 at 06:42 -0800, Michael S Collins wrote:

[jason at jasonjgw.net]

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 06:42:50AM -0800, Michael S Collins wrote:

[msc at freeswitch.org]

yeah, vim and emacs will always be available as your GUI.
-MC

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Jason White <jason@jasonjgw.net (jason@jasonjgw.net)> wrote: