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From: Brian Behlendorf <brian@hyperreal.org>
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Subject: Re: Setting <IfDefine> parameters from config file
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Yes, Dean, you are allowed to say that.  =)

	Brian

On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Dean Gaudet wrote:
> Do I get to say "I told you so" here? 
> 
> (For those who've forgotten, I'm referring to my opinion that we shouldn't
> have ever introduced this <If> crud, and should have told people to use a
> preprocessor like M4, because this is exactly what they're intended to
> support... inching bit by bit towards a full config language sucks.)
> 
> Dean
> 
> On Mon, 31 May 1999, David Harris wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I'd like to be able to define parameters for <IfDefine> directives with a
> > directive inside a configuration file.. not just the -D flag from the
> > command line. I've looked around in the documentation and I don't see any
> > way to do this. Am I missing it somewhere?
> > 
> > If this feature is not in Apache, I think it would be a valuable one to add.
> > 
> > (Just one note to anyone who implements this: RSE has already used the
> > directive name "define" with some EAPI module that I got with mod_ssl.)
> > 
> >  - David Harris
> >    Principal Engineer, DRH Internet Services
> > 
> > 
> > 
>