Hi all, just came across the Samba4-ticket in which the comments leave an open end waiting for a decision. I looked thru the mailing list but didn't find something like a discussion about Samba4.
Just in case there really is none, I'd like to start one: I'd propose to add a new page with Samba4 to the book (as we have for example GnuPG or UDisks) and leave the Samba3 untouched. Well, untouched with the exception of version upgrades (3.6.11 is out). Version upgrades in Samba3 shouldn't be much effort to keep uptodate and the instructions I do not expect to change dramatically. So keeping Samba3 will provide a well-baked instruction set for those who want build a stable Samba server. In Samba4 (currently 4.0.1) there will be much more development as the package will introduce much more functionality. That is NTP, DNS, LDAP, Kerberos and such integrated (or at least a dependency) in a fileserver. Here I'd expect much more changes in the instructions. I think it would be good to keep that developing area separated from a stable set. When the development at the Samba4-page also calmed down, maybe Samba3 get dropped as KDE3 has been replaced by KDE4 but for a while, both version were in the book. What do you think? -- Thomas -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
