On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 13:20 +0200, Ortwin Glück wrote: > Oleg, > > Thanks for the info on LGPL code! Do you have a reference to the > announcement? I seem to have missed that... >
There's been no official announcement yet, but what I can gather from Henri's statement made on the commons-dev list seems to indicate it is just a matter of time http://www.mail-archive.com/commons-dev% 40jakarta.apache.org/msg79380.html > As for the replacement with JCIFS. The docs you have mentioned are for > the server side. For the client side all you need is basically in > http://jcifs.samba.org/src/docs/api/jcifs/smb/NtlmPasswordAuthentication.html > We would just need to replace some code in our NTLMAuthenticator with > calls to that class. I don't think this is worth a SoC project. It can > be done in half an hour. The main issue here is packaging and documentation. > Fair enough. Besides, we ARE late for this year SoC anyways. This said, I suspect this work can get rather involved and can keep one occupied for good three months. NTLM proved a horrible b*ch in the past to unit test, and dependency on an external library will not completely remove the need to test stuff properly on our side. Oleg > Odi > > Oleg Kalnichevski wrote: > > Folks, > > > > Probably we are already helplessly late with that, but I'll throw this > > one in to see how everyone reacts. > > > > Initially I felt we should not participate in Summer of Code because > > still had not released the previous contribution sponsored by Google > > (Cookie2). With the Cookie2 code finally having landed in the trunk I no > > longer have a bad conscious about it and am pretty determined to see > > HttpClient 3.1 APLHPA 1 released in June > > > > Secondly, according to Henri, a decision on allowing Apache code to link > > with (or import functionality of) LGPL libraries is imminent. That > > leaves us with an option to deprecate our own NTLM code which has been > > long unmaintained and replace it with an implementation based on JCIFS. > > > > That would be a fairly self-contained unit of work without any > > dependencies on other activities going on in the project and it seems > > ideal for SoC. > > > > How do you feel about it? It is something worth spending 5,000USD of > > Google's money on? Would anyone be willing to co-mentor it with me? > > Alternatively, would anyone be willing on work on something like that > > _outside_ the SoC programme (that means no 4,500USD reward involved)? > > > > Oleg > > > > [1] http://jcifs.samba.org/src/docs/ntlmhttpauth.html > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
