One may try this to make GUI works with asterisk 1.8
Here is a quick and dirty patch, the isAST_1_6_1 will give you most
of the actions that you need. I just got my svn access so I will work
to add 1.8, 1.10 support to this soon. Keep in mind that the new
mjson addition to the manager will enable us to rewrite a lot of this
more cleanly.