Re: Lifetime and Documenting of LDAP_DEPRECATED, outside ldap.h

["Gavin Henry" <ghenry@suretecsystems.com>]

<quote who="Kurt D. Zeilenga">
> At 06:35 AM 12/20/2006, Gavin Henry wrote:
>>> Is there a date set that LDAP_DEPRECATED will not be supported anymore?
>
> No.
>
>>> And should we (docs team) put something on Faq-O-Matic (devel section),
>>> or
>>> in the new devel guide (once an outline/template has been put in place)
>>> that presents the "Best Practice" for updating their code?
>
> Personally, I think it would be better to focus the limited
> documentation time/energy we have toward documenting
> non-deprecated code (and discussing how to write clients
> using non-deprecated code).

That settles it then. If we get asked, we can point them to the latest ldap.h

Like you say, we can't spread ourselves too thinly.

>
> But as I've noted before, (code and documentation) developers
> should work on what they need/want...  and, if its generally
> useful, it will find its way into OpenLDAP Software (and/or
> other materials provided by the Project).  That is, don't
> let my (or other statements) stop anyone from working on
> what they need/want.
>

Of course.

Thanks for the reply.

Gavin.