Re: MDB distribution

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Brett @Google wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com
> <mailto:hyc@symas.com>> wrote:
>     Brett @Google wrote:
>
>         Sorry for the "fuzzy" logic :P, but :
>
>         My thoughts for no:
>
>         1. The name will affect only the name of the backend module, which is
>         logically a unit under the scope of openldap (and all backends share a
>         prefix), it can't exist by itself.

>     This point is false; libmdb builds on its own and is intended for use in
>     more than just OpenLDAP. (I already spelled this out in my LDAPCon
>     presentation...) I've ported SQLite to use it, for example, and I will be
>     porting it to Cyrus SASL (sasldb), Heimdal, and various other
>     miscellaneous stuff that comes along. The API is fully documented in
>     Doxygen, and part of the reason I went to that trouble was to ensure that
>     other programmers could use it easily.

> Mmm. That sounds interesting. I have only just read your LDAPCon presentation,
> i have been away. Will the source for mmdb library itself eventually live
> separately somewhere, or just bundled with ldap ?

It will always reside in the OpenLDAP git repo. You can use e.g.
	git clone -b mdb.master git://git.openldap.org/openldap.git mdb
to grab just the libmdb source.
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