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[Greger V. Teigre]

Yes, I agree that user's probably see ser and openser as pretty much the 
same. My comment was in the context of whether it would be reasonable to 
direct beginners to openser (if ser decides to focus on "professionals 
only").  openser has quite a lot more modules, a pretty hard to 
understand pseudo-variable system, as well as several new functionality 
that, although appropriate for professionals, will make it even harder 
for beginners (I'm thinking for example about the new possibility to set 
the nortpproxy flag used in SDP).

So, my conclusion (not explicit) was that it would not help beginners to 
be directed to openser, on the contrary. This is not to say that I 
consider ser to be much better, with names like avpairs and selects, as 
well as functions called things like xlset*, a beginner has a hard 
time... (which of course was the starting point of the discussion)
g-)

Andreas Granig wrote:
> Greger V. Teigre wrote:
>> :-) In fact, to me, OpenSER seems to pretend that it is all things to 
>> all people. That may work for a while (and in fact, maybe we should 
>> send some people to OpenSER...) IMHO, it seems that OpenSER is going 
>> in the opposite direction of SER by introducing all sorts of "special 
>> case" functionality that confuses people and allows them to break 
>> more parts of the RFCs.
>
> From a user's perspective, both SER and OpenSER feel the same. It's 
> just that SER has features that OpenSER doesn't have and vice versa. 
> Experienced users (hopefully) know what they want/need and thus can 
> choose the version which fits better, or even mix it. New users have a 
> hard time in both worlds anyway because of the same beginner problems 
> they face, so this is not a matter of the version they choose.
>
> Regards,
> Andreas
>
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