On 11.11.2012 09:57, Fabien wrote:
Hello devs,
I have developed and maintained a small module called "mod_macro" since
1998. It is currently available at:
http://people.apache.org/~fabien/mod_macro/
I started it one day as was fed up with copy-pasting configuration
directives from one virtual host to the next and one directory to the
next. It includes Define/Use of configuration macro, as well as
Error/Warning macros. The code is fairly stable (14 years:-).
I am using it frequently since about 6 years. I think it is a focused
and valuable module. It helps reducing duplication from elaborated
configurations and makes them more maintainable.
I would like to donate the code so that it could be integrated with
apache as a standard module.
+1
The main reason for that is that what is
done is some preprocessing that do not really belong to an external
module, as the right "configuration time" hooks do not exist, so I have
to guess. If the module was integrated in the configuration handling of
apache, there would be no need for "guessing", thus it could be cleaner.
Moreover, I think that such features should have been included with
apache from the start.
That might need more discussion.
Regards,
Rainer
