It would be ideal to develop a fully managed provider, but I had an immediate need to get at least a subset of the API up and working, and the easiest route to go was to wrap the C libraries. My long term goal is for the library to not have any unmanaged dependencies whatsoever, and I plan on removing them over time by implementing the functionality provided by the C libraries in native C#.
It would be stellar to have the guys from Novell involved in this if they are interested. Does anyone have anything concrete on their time frame for making a decision to join the development? Jason ---- Original Message ---- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Mono-list] Mono LDAP Status Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 00:12:40 -0400 >Hello Brady, >> Novell's Directory Services team is also evaluating the work >necessary >> for implementing the System.DirectoryServices class in Mono. I am >> currently working on a project at Novell that is using Mono and >need >> this class ASAP. I would like to see the class implemented all in >> managed code for deployment and management reasons. >I agree this would be the best path. However, it would also be the >longest. If you need the code "ASAP", you are not going to get it >with >an all managed provider. Long term, however, this is the best plan. >> Since I'm new to Open Source, I'm not sure how this works where >three >> parties are interesting in implementing the same class. >We use CVS (Cuncurent Versioning System), a common Open Source >versioning program, to allow multiple people to work on something at >the >same time. It is just like inside Novell, except your coworker might >live on the other side of the world ;-). > >I think having some NDS people on the Sys.DS team would be ideal. > >-- Ben > >_______________________________________________ >Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list > > _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
