Re: commit: ldap/doc/man/man5 slapd-perl.5

Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:

hyc@OpenLDAP.org writes:

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Note perlModuleConfig, break in compatibility with older versions

Why? This sounds like it will break existing back-perl installations slightly, but maybe not so thoroughly that the admin realizes why his back-perl now misbehaves.

Since 2.4 slapd dies on unknown config directives, they won't get very far before it becomes obvious what needs to be fixed.

If we are going to redesign the interface, it might be better do do it more thorougly. E.g. might to let backend perl perl-load foo load foo.pm which defines backend foo, usable with 'database foo'.

Huh?