Re: Allow comments after an entry in conf and map files

2016-03-22 Thread Tom Browder
On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 3:23 PM, Wietse Venema wrote: > Wietse: > [modeline support to turn on/off #comment support] > > Tom Browder: >> I agree, but I was think of a non-default build config define for CCARGS, >> say, >> '-DALLOW_TRAILING_COMMENTS', so that all files read by postfix would >> alw

Re: Allow comments after an entry in conf and map files

2016-03-22 Thread Wietse Venema
Wietse: [modeline support to turn on/off #comment support] Tom Browder: > I agree, but I was think of a non-default build config define for CCARGS, say, > '-DALLOW_TRAILING_COMMENTS', so that all files read by postfix would > always have trailing comments stripped before the rest of the line is >

Re: Allow comments after an entry in conf and map files

2016-03-22 Thread Tom Browder
On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 2:38 PM, Wietse Venema wrote: > Tom Browder: >> On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 11:56 AM, Wietse Venema wrote: ... >> But, couldn't there be a user option to build Postfix to allow such >> (or maybe define some special comment character or characters such as >> the common '//' or

Re: Allow comments after an entry in conf and map files

2016-03-22 Thread Wietse Venema
Tom Browder: > On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 11:56 AM, Wietse Venema wrote: > > Tom Browder: > >> I would love to be able to use comments on the same line as conf and map > >> file entries. That has probably been requested before, but is it a > >> definite WILL NOT? > > > > Definitely. That would requi

Re: Allow comments after an entry in conf and map files

2016-03-22 Thread Tom Browder
On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 11:56 AM, Wietse Venema wrote: > Tom Browder: >> I would love to be able to use comments on the same line as conf and map >> file entries. That has probably been requested before, but is it a >> definite WILL NOT? > > Definitely. That would require some kind of quoting mec

Re: Allow comments after an entry in conf and map files

2016-03-22 Thread Wietse Venema
Tom Browder: > I would love to be able to use comments on the same line as conf and map > file entries. That has probably been requested before, but is it a > definite WILL NOT? Definitely. That would require some kind of quoting mechanism to indicate which "#" are part of the data which "#" are