On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 15:01:46 -0700 shadowym <shadowym@hotmail.com> wrote:
Is it too much to ask that directories are standardized and don't change?!
From what you say below, it is a case of standardization indeed, as Linux policy is to _have_ all conf files into /etc/.
Do you know how distruptive it is when you move all the config files from /opt to /etc.!
OMFG, what a PITA to do a: mv /opt/whatever /etc/freeswitch, indeed².
Not only that but the hierarchy has been changed. The /conf directory has been removed even though it's in all the documentation on the Freeswitch wiki. Wtf? I am used to config files being in /etc for Asterisk. Despite all the disadvantages with Asterisk at least they are sticking with that decision! Of course if I compile from scratch I suppose I can choose the directory myself but for various reasons I used the RPM so I don't have much choice in the matter unless I want to make my own RPM which isn't very good use of my time imho. But wait, it gets worse! Whoever made this decision decided just moving everything and getting rid of /conf directory was not disruptive enough. So they decided to split it up and leave the sound files where they are in /opt/freeswitch. Again, wtf?!
I guess your typing has been done under hot conditions - and this can happen to anybody one day or another. However, consider all the devs people work, what they're doing for YOU (the user, that just have to modify a bit a complete native conf to get a fully operative switch), the sweat they put in fixing some quirks sometimes in minutes and you'll begin to see how offensive your words are: "somebody" reversed the order of your FREE lunch, fork, knive & spoon and you're going off the deep end for THAT? In france, we have a swell stock phrase for that: "faire un caca nerveux" (literally: to make a nervous caca-poo). So, please tell them it just a hot and epidermic reaction, no? Jean-Yves -- BOFH excuse #12: dry joints on cable plug