From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 21 15:03:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA25750 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 15:03:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA25744 for ; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 15:03:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA02219; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 14:59:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199807212159.OAA02219@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Peter van Heusden cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Giao Nguyen Subject: Re: Netscape Directory API port? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 21 Jul 1998 22:38:01 +0200." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 14:59:53 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I've just compiled the 19980531 version of the Netscape Directory API code > (it compiles with one tiny change on FreeBSD 2.2.6) and am considering > turning it into a port. A couple of questions, though: > > 1) Is anyone actively working on such a port already? You will want to talk with Giao Nguyen who is carrying an LDAP torch at the moment. I believe he's still working on the Umich server port, which needs a million patches. He ought to be about ready with it though (*poke*). > 2) Is anyone using the Directory API code? Are there any suggestions at to > what should get installed where? Not yet. It would be nice to have one or the other available to backend the get*by* stuff, but it would need to be a 'pluggable' thing so that the system could run without it (take a look at the size of the libraries to see what I mean). > 3) The libraries for the Netscape stuff will clash with the UMich stuff. > Anyone wanting to work with LDAP will probably want to have both hanging > around, to have both an API, and a server (esp. if the UMich server > gets upgraded along the lines people on this list have suggested). Any > ideas about how the conflict should be resolved? You'll have to pick a new name for one or the other of them. I don't know of any third-part apps on our radar currently that expect one or the other to have a specific name, but the umich libraries came first, so perhaps you should come up with another name for the netscape library. Maybe ask the Netscape people what they'd be recommending? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message