I also find the current 'httpd-ldap' sub-project status lamentable -- though at least at 2.0.40 it builds (but has to be patched to run on Windows!) and includes instructions for making it part of your Apache 2 build process (on UNIX).
The lack of MSVC++ projects on Windows (which www.rudedog.org and Apache 2 main modules both provide for their stuff), the lack of API compatibility, usage/test exposure, etc, all make the sub-project a bad thing. Worse, it has scared off the original www.rudedog.org folk from maintaining it -- leaving critical LDAP authentication functionality in limbo. Overall, these modules should either move into experimental or back to rudedog.org! -- Jess Holle Günter Knauf wrote: >the last year showed that auth_ldap was always forgotten when the Apache2 APIs >changed while all other modules which were in the main source tree were always >correctly updated. So this ended up in that auth_ldap wasnt usable / compilable the >whole last year; or better since it moved to its own project. >So keeping the module as an own project is more worse than removing it completely >from the Apache projetcs... >then it's better if the original author maintains it again... >so if you dont want to move it into the Apache2 sources back remove it completely and >tell the original author that the ASF is not willing to maintain the module! > >Guenter. > > > >> Now that 2.0.40 has been released and we are in development of .41 >>and the fact that there has been a proposal for re-architecting the AUTH >>modules, I would like to propose that we move AUTH_LDAP out of it's own >>project and into experimental. This will enable AUTH_LDAP to get more >>exposure as an external module, allow it to be included in future >>releases of Apache 2 for testing and stabilization, and make sure that >>it is not overlooked in future development. LDAP is an important >>authentication method and should be supported in Apache. >> >>
