"include" global option?

[Alexander V. Chernikov]

On 25.07.2011 19:28, Martin Mares wrote:
> Hello, world!\n
>
>> I was wondering whether an "include" general option could be implemented as
>> to segment large BIRD configuration files to smaller parts, a lá BIND. This
>> should be trivial to implement I suppose, and could really help with
>> scripting and clarity.
Actually I wrote about this several months ago:
http://marc.info/?l=bird-users&m=130527511628462&w=2

Patch to 1.3.1: http://static.ipfw.ru/patches/bird_includes_20110513.diff

>
> At the dawn of time, when we started thinking about BIRD configuration,
> we got the idea that if a config file were executable, it would be run
> and its output parsed -- this way, you could start e.g. with #!/usr/bin/m4
> and have includes and macro processing.
>
> Maybe it's too crazy, but still...
>
> 				Have a nice fortnight