Bug#562029: use the standard readline library

[Faidon Liambotis]

jidanni at jidanni.org wrote:

> Asterisk should use the standard readline library, that way C-r could
> search back etc.
It uses libreadline, no idea why C-r doesn't work though.

Perhaps you'd prefer raising the issue with upstream? It'd be better
than us forwarding the request.

> By the way, perhaps the
> CLI> prompt should be AST> instead.
I highly doubt that upstream would be in favor of that.

> Also one can't dial a number from the bash command line in one step
> without the daemon running.
> One needs to break it into two parts,
> $ asterisk -c
> CLI> console dial 123455
> There is no option combination that will arrive one at the same CLI
> state, but using only line from bash. -x needs the daemon running.
Asterisk is intended to be run as a daemon, console dialing (and the
whole CLI) is there only for debugging purposes.

Regards,
Faidon