On Wed, 2 May 2007, Tony Finch wrote: > On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Magnus Holmgren wrote: > > > What do you think about having certain predefined macros available? One such > > macro could be CONFDIR, and I can also imagine macros that are defined > > according to which features are compiled in. > > > > The point of these macros would be enabling the writing of more reusable > > configuration files/snippets, and for the macros being macros is so they can > > be used .include and .ifdef directives, and also in settings that aren't > > expanded. > > Sounds useful, especially for packagers like Debian.
Does anybody care about performance any more? If you have a pile of macros defined, Exim is going to scan each config line for those macros every time it reads the config, which is something that it does often. -- Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book: http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
