On Tue, Nov 04, 2025 at 02:39:51PM +0100, Ruediger Pluem wrote: > Do we want to add this additional functionality as separate modules or do we > want to integrate it into existing modules?
I would say it depends on the additionnal complexity you would cram into an exising module. Here the project is to add configurations directives to mod_unique_id so that one can choose unique_id string length and variable name, and toggle better randomness. This is quite simple, most of the changes will be about parsing the directives. I would vote for the "improve existing module" way. Likewise, it is a simple change to let mod_substitute optionally treat the RHS as an apache expression. Here again, my vote would be "improve existing module". OTOH, if a change rewrites a large part of a module, I would vote for "separate module", since odds are high that something would break backward compatibility. Changing behaviors is the sysadmin bane, it is a reliable way to make the universe hate a project. :-) -- Emmanuel Dreyfus [email protected]
