Darren J Moffat wrote: > Lukas Rovensky wrote: >> I believe that all the new Mozilla LDAP 6 libraries should be marked >> as "private" to Samba in this PSARC. Until there is a funding to >> integrate and support them they cannot be "public". > > That is generally not the acceptable stance. In this particular case > given the history of the Mozilla LDAP libraries in Solaris going back > many more years I think this is even more unacceptable. > > The risk of having multiple versions of the LDAP libraries dragged into > the same process (Samba in this case) is quite high. > > I strongly encourage the project team to find away so that the Mozilla > LDAP 6 library is made common (ie a public taxonomy) for all to use - > that doesn't mean supporting it themselves but working with the > appropriate groups to do so. If the project can't do that then I feel I > have to derail this case given the history of LDAP libraries in Solaris > and the fact it has already been stated by RPE (Revenue Product > Engineering) that they would rather see the Mozilla LDAP 6 library > replace the current (hacked up) Mozilla LDAP 5. > > Remember that derail does not mean your case is rejected just that it > needs a vote and ARC opinion. It may not even need a full review in > this case since the issue isn't with the core architecture of Samba but > an issue with a dependency. > Darren,
I understand your concerns but your request is really out of scope of Samba I-team responsibilities. Regardless, we actually tried several times to get the Mozilla LDAP 6 C SDK integrated to Solaris as common component but there was always someone who had objections to this. Anyway, I will try yet again to explore what are our options in this space and get back to this forum in early January. However, I guess that we will have to ask for the vote and ARC opinion to proceed with this case as you explained. Just a note -- having up to data Samba in S10 is really about making money and keeping our customers on Solaris. Old version of Samba in S10 means more expensive support for us, lack of new features for customers and represents a danger that some customers will walk away from Solaris. Lukas
