> De: "Howard Chu" <h...@symas.com>
> This is the Developer's list. Your post is off topic and you should be
> ashamed
> of yourself for posting it here.
>

sorry for the noise, I knew this is the developer's list but after seeing all 
lists:

openldap-announce       OpenLDAP announcements list
openldap-bugs   OpenLDAP bugs discussion list
openldap-commit         OpenLDAP source repository 'commit' list
openldap-devel  OpenLDAP development discussion list
openldap-fortress       OpenLDAP Fortress Discussion list
openldap-technical      OpenLDAP Technical Discussion list


I thought this belongs here because the nature of the discussion. If you want 
me to move this thread to another list, please let me know.


 
> An option for LDIF wrapping was released in 2.4.24, 2011-02-10. You
> should be
> ashamed of yourself for asking for something that has already been
> available
> for over a year and a half.
> 

I was using lastest Centos 6.3 packages and I assumed that there was no 
wrapping option, sorry about that. I see now that Centos is packaging 2.4.23. 
That was close. I'm really happy to see that it was finally included upstream 
and I can't wait to see it on packages.


I think rest of the complain is still valid, though. Decoding values i still an 
issue, and the suggestion of Michael that best way is learning other languages 
instead of using ldapsearch reaffirms my pov. How broken can be a simple search 
such as

   FULLNAME=`ldapsearch -x -LLL "(uid=$1)" gecos | grep "^gecos: " | cut -d" " 
-f2- `

?


I really thought that we could start a healthy discussion about what and when a 
widely requested feature should be included. And judging from amount of 
posts/discussions I've found digging last weeks I'm pretty sure that isn't the 
opinion of a single undocumented obtuse sysadmin.

Instead of being double-ashamed because of my ignorance, I'm really proud of 
being part of the free software community and being able to address to people I 
admire and respect profundly. Even when I'm wrong and even more when I hardly 
find the right words to explain my boss that this "creppy guy with a violin" is 
the main developer of this huge project.


àngel


ps: english is not my native language, excuse my strange composition


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