[email protected] wrote: > Howard Chu <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I suppose so. I put my stuff in there when I don't consider it worth my >> effort >> to autoconf-iscate it. Things like nssov only work with Linux, so there's no >> point in adding the overhead. Stuff in there really is of too limited use to >> warrant the full effort of maintenance that the core code gets. > > That means the added value of contrib/ is that it will only be > maintained by its contributor and will rot otherwise. > > Overlays that have been autoconf-ified could all reside in > server/slapd/overlays. Non-core thing would be disabled by default, and > would rot if not maintained by their contributors, as they are now...
Didn't mean to start a holy war about contrib/ vs. overlays/. My intention was to isolate overlay development from autoconf-ing, until generality and usefulness demand for moving to overlays/. p. Ing. Pierangelo Masarati OpenLDAP Core Team SysNet s.r.l. via Dossi, 8 - 27100 Pavia - ITALIA http://www.sys-net.it ----------------------------------- Office: +39 02 23998309 Mobile: +39 333 4963172 Fax: +39 0382 476497 Email: [email protected] -----------------------------------
