yes, I'm still lurking in this News group, even if I'm not actively participating in the discussions. :-) I've been getting quite a few email and News articles asking about PerLDAP problems, or it's status. As you probably have noticed, PerLDAP stopped development several years ago, for several reasons (which I won't go into here). However, there still seems to be interest in, and a need for, PerLDAP.
The idea was that v1.4.1 would be the last 1.x release, and that a complete rewrite (v2.0) would be released in some reasonable time frame. Well, that obviously didn't happen ... So, I've decided to make one more 1.x release, call it v1� if you like. This does *not* mean there will be a v2.0 release!
What will v1� be? Well, here's my current plan, but I'm semi-open for suggestions (and completely open for contributions):
* Bug fixes. I plan to fix as many as possible of the outstanding bugs that are reported for v1.x. For a list, see
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?product=Directory&component=PerLDAP&bug_status=ASSIGNED
* Make sure it builds with released C-SDK as well as Mozilla source C-SDK on a few selected platforms (basically, the platforms I have access to).
* Make sure it works with latest Perl, 5.8. I will not test or produce any binaries for older versions of Perl, but I'll try not to break anything intentionally (i.e. I will not change code to use 5.8 specific features unless absoultely necessary).
* Prepare builds for a few selected platforms:
- RedHat 7.3, 8.0 and 9.0 (RPMs)
- Cygwin (for Windows)
- Latest ActiveState Perl (again, Windows)
- Possibly FreeBSD and MacOSX
- Possibly SunOS 8 (assuming I can use the Sourceforge compile farm)* Possibly merge some of the new features that were written for PerLDAP v2.0, like the schema module.
If you have other bugs, please file them at http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ and please be as descriptive as possible. Even better, if you have patches, send them directly to me (or post here).
Cheers,
-- Leif
