On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 19:48 +0100, Roland Weber wrote: > Hi Oleg, > > > > The trouble is that even if we had clear-cut guidelines about the use of > > LGPL libraries in ASF projects it would not get any further, because at > > this point no one expressed willingness to take upon the task of writing > > an auth scheme based on JCIFS. It will not be me at any rate. So, > > presently there is no way around depending on our old code, barring > > dropping NTLM support altogether. The question is whether we want to > > depend on the HttpClient 3.1 binary or import old NTLM code to the new > > codeline. > > Contrib code that depends on the HttpClient 3.1 binary is my preference. > I'd be interested in looking into jCIFS, but will have no spare cycles > for it. It would be good to have some NTLM code to get HTTPCLIENT-652 > right, but we could also work that out with dummy state or SSL client > authentication. If there is a lot of interest in NTLM support from the > community, there should also be volunteers. > The reason why I want to defer this discussion beyond alpha3 is that I > will not have cycles left for HTTPCLIENT-652 either, and that seems to > be a prerequisite for NTLM support. >
All right. Let's postpone the decision for one more ALPHA release Oleg > cheers, > Roland > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
