I guess RH does not want to promote OpenLDAP as *the* directory server or identity management solution. They want to force RHDS for it.
One sign of their inking is FreeIPA project. http://www.freeipa.org/ Joy On 2/3/08, Quanah Gibson-Mount <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --On February 2, 2008 6:08:37 PM +0530 Count Of Dracula > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > That was a great explation.Simple and Succinct.Too bad it did not come > > from stupid RH folks.I am sorry I did not get it. What exactly you > > mean by "RH is not building OpenLADP for running as a server"? > > I mean exactly what I wrote: > > >> RH is not building OpenLDAP for running as a server. RH is building > >> OpenLDAP for providing client libraries. They spend months testing that > >> all of the things that link to these libraries work. To upgrade/change > >> the versions of those libraries would take many months of testing and > >> cost lots of money. > > I.e., RH wants to ensure that everything that links against the OpenLDAP > libraries (perl modules, PHP, apache, NSS_ldap, PAM_ldap, just to name a > few), work against a known release. So they don't maintain the packages to > the quality necessary for an LDAP administrator to use them. > > --Quanah > > > -- > > Quanah Gibson-Mount > Principal Software Engineer > Zimbra, Inc > -------------------- > Zimbra :: the leader in open source messaging and collaboration >