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Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 11:11:21 -0700
From: Stas Bekman <stas@stason.org>
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To: Geoffrey Young <geoff@modperlcookbook.org>
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Subject: Re: removing some autoconfig magic from A-T
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Geoffrey Young wrote:
> 
> Stas Bekman wrote:
> 
>>Some of the autoconfig magic starts to create more overhead than it used
>>to safe. e.g. all this magic of t/hooks/TestHooks is no longer useful,
>>as we add more tests and the test names aren't mapping 1:1 to the phase
>>name. 
> 
> 
>>I think we should start stripping those special cases from A-T. Same
>>goes for filters which magically figures out which filter handler to
>>register.
> 
> 
> I think I follow what you're talking about - like for
> hooks/TestHooks/authz.pm the PerlAuthzHandler is automatically added to
> httpd.conf even though it's not in the final config in __DATA__?

correct. And if you rename that phase to some other name it's will try 
to add some bogus handler name instead.

> personally, I always found this (single) bit of automagic very, very
> confusing.  so +1 to remove that bit and just require that __DATA__ be the
> config that you want.

Cool

what about the other thing I have mentioned? t/response vs. special 
t/hooks/TestHooks (protocols and filters?)

> is there more that <NoAutoConfig> suppresses?

There is a lot more, but at most other places, it works fine and saves a 
lot of typing and maintenance. So normally you won't need to disable 
autoconfig.

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