Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 14:59:53 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Peter van Heusden <pvh@leftside.wcape.school.za> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Giao Nguyen <grail@sysabend.org> Subject: Re: Netscape Directory API port? Message-ID: <199807212159.OAA02219@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 21 Jul 1998 22:38:01 %2B0200." <Pine.BSF.3.95.980721222941.1893A-100000@leftside.wcape.school.za>
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> 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 <grail@sysabend.org> 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
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