michael@stroeder.com writes:
hyc@symas.com wrote:
Michael Ströder wrote:
The comments wouldn't have to persist in cn=config.
Perhaps not, but that makes the data in cn=config less comprehensible than it would be in slapd.conf.
Well, that's no different from #comments at the beginning of lines. Or the default values which back-config inserts. One can't tell whether a value is present because the admin knew and thought about it or because cn=config defaulted it.
However:
Who benefits from this feature?
An admin copying&pasting a schema from an standard document which uses this format. I'm currently looking at such a document with ~500 occurences of OIDs used in declarations instead of NAMEs.
Which one? It's not RFC 4512 format. RFC 4512 uses ';' for comments _about_ the syntax of schema elements, not _in_ their syntax.