[dba-dev] Re: Connecting to an LDAP server

2008-11-22 Thread Ferry Toth 
It is is not a matter of responsibility, but usability.

The only mail reader I have found that writes to ldap is Evolution. The
rest including Windows Address book just reads.

But ldap is just a database back end like any other.

And Base could serve great as front end. After all you need a way to get
the data into the ldap server as well as out.

Ferry

Op zaterdag 22-11-2008 om 12:21 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Frank
Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany:

 Hi Ferry,
 
  Is there any chance to get OO to write to ldap? Or should I just be
  happy to read?
 
 The lattter. Writing to LDAP is an administrative task which I don't see
 in the responsibility of an office productivity suite.
 
 Ciao
 Frank

Re: [dba-dev] Re: Connecting to an LDAP server

2008-11-22 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany 
Hi Ferry,

 It is is not a matter of responsibility, but usability.
 ...
 And Base could serve great as front end. After all you need a way to get
 the data into the ldap server as well as out.

Let me put it the other way round: There's a lot of things which *could*
be implemented in OpenOffice.org (for instance, people constantly
require an Outlook equivalent, a project management tool, and a lot of
other applications, and the like).

However, I don't think that attempting to implement each and every
feature which would be useful is a good idea. Not as long as not each
and every developer in the world works on OpenOffice.org.

So, as long as we need to prioritize our work, I continue to think LDAP
write access is not what belongs to a database application's core
functionality.

Which doesn't mean we would not accept your (or anybody else's) patch
which implements this :)

Ciao
Frank

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