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Re: (ITS#7283) Usage of private headers make building out-of-tree extensions painful

guillomovitch@gmail.com wrote:
> Full_Name: Guillaume Rousse
> Version: any
> OS: Linux
> URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/
> Submission from: (NULL) (128.93.30.10)
>
>
> In order to build out of tree extensions, such as ppolicy external password
> checker (http://ltb-project.org/wiki/documentation/openldap-ppolicy-check-password),
> you need additional slapd headers, portable.h and slapd.h (and a bunch of
> additional dependant ones), which are currently not installed, and thus
> considered as private.
>
> A request to ship those headers was refused by fedora package maintainer,
> precisely for this reason:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812860

They gave the right answer. The slap.h header is private and subject to change 
without notice.

> The situation ought to be clarified, and some kind of solution found, as
> maintaining a custom slapd build just to be able to benefit from this
> extensability is largely overkill.

Probably this should be discussed on the openldap-devel mailing list. There's 
no straightforward solution to this request.

In the case of the LTB password checker module, there's barely any need for 
slap.h; the module could easily be tweaked to avoid all references to it.

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