Re: 'include' directive in squid-2.HEAD

+1, and in 2.7 ASAP; I've already implemented this in my own hacky way
(external to squid); would be nice to have 'real' includes.

On 08/01/2008, at 2:47 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote:

> I gave in and coded up a very, very simplistic and naive
> implementation
> for "include". You can now include configuration file snippets from
> squid.conf, or any included config file.
>
> My next trick will be breaking up cf.data.pre along the documentation
> boundary lines and have seperate configuration file chunks for various
> tasks. Something like:
>
> squid.conf
> - squid.conf.auth
> - squid.conf.acl
> - squid.conf.cache
> - squid.conf.http
> - squid.conf.ftp
> - squid.conf.peer
> - squid.conf.htcp
> - squid.conf.icp
> - squid.conf.digests
> - squid.conf.misc
>
> I'd also really, really like to generate these files without any
> inline comments, leaving the inline comments for squid.conf.default.
> I'm sorry, but that enormous config file is a horrible, horrible thing
> for first timers to look at. I always suggest this:
>
> cat squid.conf | grep -v ^# | grep -v ^$ > squid.conf
>
> .. and I think we should ship the default config files looking
> somewhat
> similar.
>
> Unless there are reasoned objections I'll:
>
> * be porting the include thing to squid-2.7, as I believe its a non-
> intrusive
> change that people who will upgrade to 2.7 will benefit from;
> * look at breaking out cf.data.pre into something resembling the
> above for
> new installs in Squid-2.HEAD at some point in the future (read:
> when I next
> need a distraction from my other squid-2 related butchery.)
>
>
>
>
> Adrian
>

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