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Posted to modperl@perl.apache.org by "Randal L. Schwartz" <me...@stonehenge.com> on 2009/11/06 20:34:27 UTC

Re: Best Practices for managing repetitive Apache config file entries?

>>>>> "David" == David Nicol <da...@gmail.com> writes:

David> another possibility would be to embed some kind of macro language in
David> apache config file parsing. Perhaps Apache could offer m4
David> preprocessing?

Eww.  No.  M4 needs to die a timely death.

Template Toolkit is far closer to "sane" for this, and can be embedded
to be used at launch time, as others have already said.

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