Hi all, Just FYI, LDAP support for using a LDAP datasource has been removed from LO4. I don't know whether there is a topic on this in the Base or Writer guide, but it would probably be worth noting it down somewhere.
The reason for the removal is the fact that Thunderbird/Mozilla/Icedove addressbook support is now done by the new Mork driver developed by David Ostrovsky, instead of the mozilla addressbook code, except on Windows (for some specific reason I can't remember right now). The removal of the dependency on the very old and outdated Mozilla code caused the removal of LDAP support, since the Mozilla code also handled this side of things. Although for Linux there was also the Evolution LDAP support which could be built in, this wasn't enabled in many Linux distros. LDAP support was never an option on OSX, LO was never compiled with that in mind (much to my personal chagrin, having an OSX server with OpenLDAP integration). I don't know whether there was any support for this on Windows. This will have an impact on corporate uses where LDAP is still used, and note that OpenOffice.org supported it (albeit it with limited, read-only functionality via the mozab code), and I believe that AOO continues to offer this possibility. For the moment, it doesn't seem that anyone on the dev team is particularly keen to change the situation (i.e. bring back general LDAP support), as the only present alternative would be to revert the code changes made so far. For me, as a corporate user/admin of my small heterogeneous workstation pool, who was hoping to be able to see greater datasource availability on OSX (the list is smaller than with Linux or Windows), this is a fairly sizable step backwards, which I will have to somehow workaround, or just switch to an alternative. Anyway, I just thought that the Documentation team ought to know about it, in case we have something somewhere that discusses such support as a datasource. BTW, the built-in help has now become obsolete. Also note that although 4.0rc contains the possibility of defining a LDAP addressbook datasource, at least on Linux, the driver doesn't load. Alex -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
