Jeff Trawick writes: > James Carlson wrote: > > Has this change (and the reason for it) been discussed with the team > > that supports the native Solaris LDAP library? > > > > > It has been discussed to a small extent.
That begs the next question: are they in substantial agreement with the direction that this team is going? > Note that this isn't so much a technical matter of how to get a couple > of specific open source packages to interoperate with the native Solaris > LDAP library as it is a long term consideration for how we accommodate > existing open source applications on the platform. Indeed! That's exactly the issue. What is the long term strategy here? Do we get rid of the native Solaris LDAP library? If so, then why hasn't it been marked "Obsolete" with OpenLDAP as the replacement? If that's not the long term strategy, then what exactly is? Do we have such a strategy for LDAP on Solaris? > All of the LDAP-exploitive packages we know of which are either > potentially in scope for inclusion with the OpenSolaris web stack or > likely added by users already work with OpenLDAP; relatively few of > these packages work properly with native Solaris LDAP. I don't think that means that system architecture ought to be "designed" by having each individual project vote with its feet. That's a recipe for chaos. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <james.d.carlson at sun.com> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677
