But..
I can't decide what I think about dependencies. The way OpenLDAP libs
are split up in liblber and libldap is geting in the way, as usual.
For an app without LDAP/networking, it can be annoying to have to drag
in libldap and via that OpenSSL, SASL, which can drag in Berkeley DB,
and I don't know what else, just to parse LDIF files. When they're all
already installed I suppose it rarely matters much nowadays, but it may
be a different story for maintaining/downloading precompiled packages.
From: hyc@symas.com
rmeggins@redhat.com wrote:
I think this could be accomplished in one of two ways:
1) Just have libldif return lists of struct berval* for the various data
parsed. The caller would be responsible for turning these into LDAPMod
or LDAPControl structures - the advantage is that libldif doesn't have
to know about any of these higher level structures
That sounds nice in making libldif almost standalone - needs only
liblber. For that matter, if someone wants to get rid of that we
could provide hooks for allocation and log functions.
2) Have libldif create LDAPMod and LDAPControl - I think this could be
accomplished by having ldif.c #include<ldap.h> to pull in the
definitions of LDAPMod and LDAPControl - would this be ok?
Does this need libldap? Or will it be sufficient to tell the user
that he should use ldap_controls_free() or functions he can copy&paste
from libldap, so he can avoid libldap if he really wants to?