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From: Dean Gaudet <dgaudet@arctic.org>
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Subject: Re: Setting <IfDefine> parameters from config file
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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
> 
> 
>