[SR-Users] My wish

[Alex Balashov]

On 04/10/2010 03:04 AM, Juha Heinanen wrote:

> Alex Balashov writes:
>
>   >  However, this very same argument could be made against features like
>   >  'include_file' and #!ifdef&  friends, and some other things that have
>   >  made Kamailio 3.x much better than 1.x from a code management
>   >  perspective.  These features have revolutionised our deployment,
>   >  standardisation and maintenance process.
>
> i agree and since i'm using M4 is have had no use of #!ifdef&  friends,
> because (as you point out) those alone are not powerful enough.  so
> either embed all M4 features in sr or none and use M4 instead.

I think there may be an attractive middle ground here:  support a 
preprocessor feature set natively that is roughly equivalent to the 
one provided by many other packages whose configuration files are 
semi-programmatic in nature, but leave the really advanced 
metaprogramming for those that need it to m4.

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