As I wrote the templates of mod_ftp's out-of-tree schema, I was thinking of an approach that would work for mod_mbox/smtpd/mod3/arm4 or even mod_dns.
This approache is ready for review; I'm wondering if we might want to create a 'template' for a mod_example style build? This might make it easier to launch in-tree/out-of-tree module projects. One thing about dropping this sort of project into an httpd tree, that I didn't fight with yet, is extending the conf/ tree installation, or module specific targets (like $prefix/ftpdocs in this case), or actually extending the substitutions list (config_vars.mk). Any help with this would be appreciated, since it looks like that will require changes to httpd/ itself. Bill