[OpenSIPS-Users] RFC: text pre-processing in OpenSIPS cfg file

Pauba, Kevin L KLPauba at west.com
Wed Apr 11 19:56:25 CEST 2012


The GNU M4 Manual gives lots of simple examples.  Reading the two (very short) sections http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/manual/m4.html#Ifdef and http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/manual/m4.html#Include, you can do something like this:

define(`foo',1)
ifdef(`foo',include(`foo.m4'))

But it's really hard to sway the "don't like" argument -- I don't like beef liver and nothing you say will change my mind.

-----Original Message-----
From: users-bounces at lists.opensips.org [mailto:users-bounces at lists.opensips.org] On Behalf Of Brett Nemeroff
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 10:54 AM
To: OpenSIPS users mailling list
Subject: Re: [OpenSIPS-Users] RFC: text pre-processing in OpenSIPS cfg file

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Bogdan-Andrei Iancu
<bogdan at opensips.org> wrote:
> Well, it is not only about personal preferences and how is nicer, etc...you
> should consider also the required work to do - at the end somebody has to
> implement this. And my questions is: considering that the development
> resources are limited, does it make sense to invest them in just creating an
> alternative to something already existing ?
>

I honestly didn't like using M4. And it's not an opensips thing, it's
an M4 thing. I just don't like M4. I'm sure it can be attributed to me
not really knowing it, but I found that I couldn't really do what I
wanted with it without some sort of hacking. I wanted to do
conditional includes and such. Maybe all I needed was some good
examples.

Is there anyway to build m4 into the opensips pre-processor? so
opensips can just run the m4 file?
-Brett

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