--On Thursday, April 05, 2012 7:38 PM +0000 h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no wrote:

On Thu, 5 Apr 2012 13:12:31 GMT, michael@stroeder.com wrote:

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hyc@symas.com wrote:

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michael@stroeder.com wrote:

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2. add an equality matching rule.

My approach with config attrs has been to skip the equality rule for single-valued attrs. Since they are single-valued, there's obviously no need to allow for comparing multiple values.

Users always find more ways to use a feature than its creator imagined.

I wish people would give attributes all matching rules they can. Equality, ordering, substring. Except when:

• flexibility would be a misfeature, e.g. SUBSTR for userPassword,
• or it's unclear which rules to choose, e.g. caseIgnore vs caseExact.

I agree. I think defining matching rules where possible is extremely useful.

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount Sr. Member of Technical Staff Zimbra, Inc A Division of VMware, Inc. -------------------- Zimbra :: the leader in open source messaging and collaboration