Definately. It would be a lot better than having to compile nginx
custom for each module you want. Just a simple .so file or something
that takes effect on a start or restart only still works better.
Somehow doing it via graceful reload would be even better :)

This way modules can be written and deployed any time.

On Jun 7, 2009, at 12:47 PM, Igor Sysoev <is@rambler-co.ru> wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 03:26:58AM -0700, Michael Shadle wrote:
>
>> I think 0.8.x should introduce pluggable modules.
>>
>> Then the distros could support a stripped down basic version with
>> optional modules, and then just have a "module foo;" line or
>> something
>> in the nginx.conf. I don't think it would take too much overhead as
>> it's only run during startup...
>
> I thought about dynamic loadable modules (and it's really very
> intresting
> to me from technical point of view :) ), however, if I will ever
> implement
> this, the loading will be allowed only on start, but not on
> reconfiguration,
> since unloading with removing dependences is complex thing.
> Anyway it's not 0.8.x thing.
>
>> On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 3:18 AM, Ian Hobson<ian@ianhobson.co.uk>
>> wrote:
>>> ehudros2 wrote:
>>>>
>>>> anyone? I'm getting lost with this perl module stuff here ;)
>>>> is it already in the nginx apt packed I installed? if it is, why is
>>>> perl_var unidentified?
>>>>
>>>> Posted at Nginx Forum:
>>>> http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,2598,2679#msg-2679
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> You need to build your own nginx - see
>>>
>>> http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxEmbeddedPerlModule
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
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