On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 11:51, Geoffrey Young wrote:
> > Am I
> > correct to say that people don't need to work directly with
> > Apache::ReadConfig? I think the only place this is needed when people
> > mix config with non-config perl code in <Perl>, so that they need to
> > switch 'package Apache::ReadConfig;' to start feeding things into the
> > config.
>
> no, you can also add entries directly to the Apache::ReadConfig namespace in
> order to add configuration data.
>
> package Apache::Foo;
> $Apache::ReadConfig::PerlFixupHandler = "Apache::Foo";
> sub handler { };
>
> now, PerlModule Apache::Foo automatically installs a PerlFixupHandler :)
> there are a few modules on CPAN that do this, IIRC.Yes, but this has always been partially broken as it is. For example: package Apache::Foo; $Apache::ReadConfig::Alias = qw(/some/path /some/alias); If you only do : PerlModule Apache::Foo and have no <Perl> sections in your httpd.conf, that code will not happen If you have more than one <Perl> section, you'll get warnings about re-defining an Alias directive for the same location, as the content of Apache::ReadConfig:: will be read and processed for every <Perl> block. > it's similar to Apache->server->add_config() in mp2, but I've found that > method really not worth the trouble - it's goverened by overrides, so you > can never really trust that it will add the configuration data you pipe into it. Can you give me one such example ? I can imagine a <Perl> section in a <virtualhost> block might not (yet) have access to the right Apache::Server object to add it's configuration to... Is that what you mean ? > --Geoff > > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Philippe M. Chiasson /gozer\@(cpan|ectoplasm)\.org/ 88C3A5A5 (122FF51B/C634E37B) http://gozer.ectoplasm.org/ F9BF E0C2 480E 7680 1AE5 3631 CB32 A107 88C3 A5A5 Q: It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious. perl -e'$$=\${gozer};{$_=unpack(P7,pack(L,$$));/^JAm_pH\n$/&&print||$$++&&redo}'
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