[sr-dev] kamctl and sercmd unification proposal

[Ovidiu Sas]

If the goal is to merge both 'ser' and 'kamailio' under the
'sip-router' name, then perhaps the common control tool should be
'srctl'.

Regards,
Ovidiu Sas

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Henning Westerholt
<henning.westerholt at 1und1.de> wrote:
> 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
>
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