asterisk users - Jul 2007 - software bloat - is this really useful to anyone?

http://www.asterisk.org/node/48327

I mean, really... you're kidding me, right?

Lee.

On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 14:29 -0700, Lee Howard wrote:
> http://www.asterisk.org/node/48327
> 
> I mean, really... you're kidding me, right?
This was added as a April Fools joke, and has since been removed.  It's
nice to know that even software engineers have a sense of humor from
time to time. :-)

On the serious side, one might see it as an example of how easy it is to
add a new CLI command to Asterisk (complete with compiler flags, command
auto-completion, and the whole nine yards).

-- 
Jared Smith
Community Relations Manager
Digium, Inc.

Quoting Lee Howard <faxguy at howardsilvan.com>:
> http://www.asterisk.org/node/48327
>
> I mean, really... you're kidding me, right?
I have to agree, there comes a time when someone has to say no to  
stuff that has no business being in production software.

Remember when an o/s fit on a floppy with room to spare (and not just  
the bootstrap to load the real o/s)


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Lee Howard wrote:
> http://www.asterisk.org/node/48327
>
> I mean, really... you're kidding me, right?
>
> Lee.
>   
It was done as a joke.  It was committed only to trunk, and was only 
compiled if explicitly enabled.

Mark seemed to get a kick out of it, so, yes, I guess you could say it 
was useful to at least one person.


(Note, this code has since been removed, since clearly the date has long 
passed.)

-- 
Jason Parker
Digium

Relax, its only in trunk.

Zoa

Lee Howard wrote:
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> I mean, really... you're kidding me, right?
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On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 02:29:32PM -0700, Lee Howard
wrote:
> http://www.asterisk.org/node/48327
> 
> I mean, really... you're kidding me, right?
Ghod... nobody has a sense of humour anymore.  :-)

Cheers,
-- jra
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Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> Ghod... nobody has a sense of humour anymore.  :-)
I know.  I better not list all of the other things we have done as a joke. 
Someone might have heart failure.  ;)

-- 
Russell Bryant
Software Engineer
Digium, Inc.

Am Montag, den 30.07.2007, 14:29 -0700 schrieb Lee
Howard:
> http://www.asterisk.org/node/48327
> 
> I mean, really... you're kidding me, right?
It is not at all April 1st... however, I see the point in having a
simple demo app. Wether you call it helloworld or hellomarc, the
difference is not too large, right?

For me having a working example codebase has been a helpful guide in
programming modules for existing applications (not Asterisk yet,
though). You carve out "Marco" and put in your own code, there you
are.

Besides that and an overly eager "Mr. Smithers" programmer, I do not
see
a point ;)

BR
Anselm