I guess RH does not want to promote OpenLDAP as *the* directory server or identity management solution. They want to force RHDS for it.
One sign of their inking is FreeIPA project.
Joy
On 2/3/08, Quanah Gibson-Mount quanah@zimbra.com wrote:
--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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