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Re: 1.0b2

On Tue, Aug 24, 1999 at 08:57:39PM -0400, Eric B. Ridge wrote:
> One that we'd like to see is some kind of pre-processor for JSP's . . .
> think back to the old days of C and #IFDEF #ENDIF . . .
> 
> Justification:
> In our environment, we do our development (and debugging) on the development
> server.  Production code gets moved to the (you guessed it) production
> server.  If we could include debugging statements in our code, ONLY on the
> development server, life would be wonderful.  We currently do things like:

 I've patched gnujsp with preprocessing (with m4) for my work. I've sent one
version of that patch to the list months ago (without error checking!) but
nobody liked the idea. In my opinion preprocessing is very useful in web
development.