[sr-dev] kamctl and sercmd unification proposal

[Henning Westerholt]

On Wednesday 24 March 2010, marius zbihlei wrote:
> As kamailio and ser get more and more unified, sharing common modules
> and core, one of the last remaining points is the intermixed usage of
> kamctl and sercmd to setup specific parameters. One example is the cfg
> framework  changes (from ser) that Kamailio 3.1.0 will bring, that will
> require the use of "sercmd" on setting specific module config params.
> The issue is that the documentation also references the "kamctl" utility
> to specify reload actions etc.
> 
> What I suggest is that we strip kamctl with its fifo capabilities and
> leave it only with DB, ACL management and such(that sercmd doesn't
> provide), and use only sercmd on examples in the documentation files.
> This will require no changes to code (well some features from kamctl
> will be deprecated), but only documentation changes. This will ensure
> that documentation is kept well organized and coherent across modules.
> [..]

Hello,

any other opinions on this proposal? No oposition agaisnt the removal of the 
common functionality in kamctl and promoting of serctl as the main server 
control tool?

Best regards,

Henning