> > Just so you know, a centralized VCS like svn or cvs can do the same thing. >
How does one commit to a local repository using SVN? Sure I suppose if the LDAP spontaneously configures itself and > populates itself with data that is just great. I was talking about > configuring LDAP, deploying LDAP, and populating it with data. That > sucks. Ever type LDIF by hand? Fun. > > That's not very awesome to me. You can do the same thing with AUR's > RPC... without the fugly, esoteric LDAP syntax and without prior > knowledge of how the directory is structured: > > curl "http://aur.archlinux.org/rpc.php?type=info&arg=$pkgname"; > > I don't think it would be worth the effort of the programmer to > convert the AUR to use LDAP as a storage backend to get features we > already have. However, using LDAP for a centralized > authentication/authorization server for the sites in the archlinux.org > domain? That would be sweet. > Personally I think that LDAP is much easier to set up and populate than SQL. Also my LDAP query does not require an additional layer to translate HTTP -> SQL -> JSON. Though I suppose since this infrastructure is already in place this point is rather moot. --Kaiting. -- Kiwis and Limes: http://kaitocracy.blogspot.com/
