Re: ldapdb sasl plugin

[Alexey Melnikov <Alexey.Melnikov@isode.com>]

Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:

> At 09:49 AM 3/17/2004, Alexey Melnikov wrote:
>  
>
> > Andreas wrote:
> >    
> >
> > > What is the "canonical"/current location to fetch the ldapdb sasl plugin from?
> > >      
>
> As with an other OpenLDAP contribWare:
>  For general use, the latest OpenLDAP Software release which
>  includes the ldapsasl contributed work.  For development, the
>  CVS repository.
>  
>
> > > The openldap source tree?
> > >      
> > I would think so.
> >    
> >
> > > Is it going to be included in the cyrus-sasl package?
> > >      
>
> That's a question more for Howard and CMU.  But if is, we'll
> remove it from our release.
>  
>
> > Unlikely. CMU are not willing to have dependency on OpenLDAP.
> >    
>
> I note that Cyrus SASL already has dependencies on OpenLDAP
> Software.  auth_ldap's lak.c is full them.  In fact, it uses
> LDAP_VENDOR_VERSION is used under the assumption that
> LDAP_VENDOR_NAME is "OpenLDAP".
Yes, I keep forgetting about this.

Dependency on OpenLDAP is actually even more interesting: you need to 
build SASL to build OpenLDAP and you need to build OpenLDAP to build SASL.

Alexey