[Freeswitch-users] Ast/FS Rosetta Stone

[Yossi Neiman]

Anthony Minessale wrote:
> You can put a comma sep list of dialplans in the sofia profile or as 
> the arg to transfer if you wish and they are checked in order until 
> one returns an extension.
>
>
> On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 10:18 PM, Arnaldo de Moraes Pereira 
> <ap at arnaldopereira.com <mailto:ap at arnaldopereira.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 12:04 AM, Michael S Collins
>     <mercutio.viz at gmail.com <mailto:mercutio.viz at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     > Just to confirm: you can run both dialplans simultaneously, no?  I'm
>

I'd just like to put in my opinion here:  I think it's best to view the 
mod_dialplan_asterisk as a crutch.  I do not mean to say that any work 
that anthm or anybody else did was bad; actually quite the opposite.  To 
fit something like the old Asterisk dialplan into the workings of a 
completely different type of a dialplan is amazing.  However, the sooner 
that a user of FreeSWITCH can free himself of "The Old Asterisk Way" the 
better his experience will be in the long term.

I personally chose to rebuild my dialplan from the ground-up instead of 
trying the mod_dialplan_asterisk.  It was a little like diving in to the 
deep end when you have just learned how to float, but I have been 
nothing but delighted with the results.  I find the dialplan XML to be 
very flexibile and I love the fact that it uses regexes for pattern 
matching.

I will try to elaborate on my experiences and provide users with tips 
for converting at Cluecon in August.

-- 
Yossi Neiman
Cartis Solutions, Inc.
http://www.cartissolutions.com