[MaraDNS list] not fixed upstream after all

[Nicholas Bamber]

Sam,
	Good luck with the job interview.

On 07/12/11 17:54, Sam Trenholme wrote:
>> I don't think include functionality in deadwood addresses the user's
>> issue since he clearly needs it in the authoritative server. In any case
>> the "execfile" documentation is quite hard to follow.
> 
> I will add more documentation for "execfile" in Deadwood over the next
> few days.  It's been really hectic the last week; I had one job
> interview Friday and am flying out today for another interview
> tomorrow.  I should be able to make time to document "execfile" better
> this weekend.
> 
> In terms of adding "execfile" support to the authoritative server, my
> answer before I began accepting donations was "No, because UNIX [1]
> already has a program called 'bash' that can do this.  'man bash' for
> details." or "No, because MaraDNS has the /read directive that can do
> this for zone files.".  Now that MaraDNS' continued development and
> support is user-funded, the answer is "No, because I currently don't
> have enough funding to implement new features."  (Note: I do manage to
> get a job offer, I may no longer be able to implement new MaraDNS
> features for reasonable sums of money.  I will let the list know when
> this happens).
> 
>> This need not necessarily be an upstream issue. If your processing
>> can handle running dpkg-reconfigure after updating the include file,
>> then this could be accomplished with debconf.
> 
> UNIX has a program called 'bash' that can combine multiple files in to
> a single file.  'man bash' for details.  :)
> 
> - Sam
> 
> [1] I understand that POSIX does not require that Bash be included
> with a UNIX system.  However, I can not think of a recent
> implementation of UNIX that doesn't come with BASH (AIX and HP-UX are
> legacy implementations, not recent implementations.  I *believe*
> Solaris comes with Bash these days; I *know* most Linux distros, BSD,
> and Mac OS X do come with Bash).  If you want to be pedantic about it,
> just do a s/bash/sh/ig while reading this email.


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