Hi, On 01/11/2010 10:08 AM, Ralf Haferkamp wrote:
mozldap What's the goal for adding that? To my knowledge most application that can build against mozldap build fine against OpenLDAP as well. There are exception I admit, but those get fewer and fewer. Do you have a special application in mind (apart from Thunderbird and SeaMonkey) ?
The question came up because someone is packaging 389ds for openSUSE and plans to add it to contrib. So as we already use the lib in TB and SM I was evaluating if it makes sense to add mozldap in general. The Mozilla apps are currently not working with openldap libs while I know about some feature requests and patch proposals to change this. AFAIK there is not much interest from upstream doing that (apparently).
Aren't Thunderbird and SeaMonkey able to build against libldap from OpenLDAP nowadays? I think I read something about that recently. IMO it would be better to do that instead of adding another LDAP library. Remember the trouble we had sometime ago with symbol clashes in the different libraries when nss_ldap is used.
An additional problem with mozldap seems to be, that doesn't seem to get much attention lately. The latest version seems from more than 2 years ago. To my knowledge even the 389DS (former FedoraDS former Redhat DS former Netscape DS former ...) developers have plans to move away from mozldap and use the OpenLDAP libraries. (e.g. the OpenLDAP libs can be built against the NSS crypto libs already).
If Mozilla (and perhaps 389ds) is moving to openldap I would support that and agree that it would be best to consolidate. So thanks for your feedback and I guess you convinced me. So I'll propose to add the packages to contrib for now until everything uses openldap. Wolfgang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org