Re: large ldap server recommendation

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@zimbra.com>]

--On February 2, 2008 6:08:37 PM +0530 Count Of Dracula 
<countofdracula@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> That was a great explation.Simple and Succinct.Too bad it did not come
> from stupid RH folks.I am sorry I did not get it. What exactly you
> mean by "RH is not building OpenLADP for running as a server"?

I mean exactly what I wrote:

> > RH is not building OpenLDAP for running as a server.  RH is building
> > OpenLDAP for providing client libraries.  They spend months testing that
> > all of the things that link to these libraries work.  To upgrade/change
> > the versions of those libraries would take many months of testing and
> > cost lots of money.

I.e., RH wants to ensure that everything that links against the OpenLDAP 
libraries (perl modules, PHP, apache, NSS_ldap, PAM_ldap, just to name a 
few), work against a known release.  So they don't maintain the packages to 
the quality necessary for an LDAP administrator to use them.

--Quanah


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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Engineer
Zimbra, Inc
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