--On Friday, February 09, 2007 5:21 PM -0600 Chris Garrigues cwg-dated-1171495262.257439@Trinsics.Com wrote:

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From: Quanah Gibson-Mount quanah@stanford.edu Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 01:24:52 -0800

A new release of Net::LDAPapi module is now available for Perl via CPAN. This release includes compilation against OpenLDAP libraries from version 2.1 forward. It now supports LDAPv3, including SASL binds.

I hate to sound critical, but...

Who's responsible for the "object oriented" interface? It bugs me when a package claims to have an OO interface, yet there's no use of OO concepts in the interface. It took me a while to convince myself that the values returned by first_entry and next_entry aren't actually objects on which I would then use the get_values method.

The interface has not been particularly or heavily modified since it was last touched in 1998. The initial 2.00 release is to get a version out that actually works with the modern LDAP api's available, which the old version flat out didn't do. As time allows, I will be going through the code and updating it to conform to current practices and procedures.

I'd rather just use the non-OO interface since it wouldn't mislead me into expecting OO behavior. I assume that still works even though it's no longer documented. Do I just stick "ldap_" on the front of all the method names?

I personally haven't used it, but I'd assume so, given the following comment in the Changes file:

- Added Perl-OO methods for virtually all API calls. The C style API calls still work, and will work in all future versions. Note that I haven't added named arguments yet, so argument order matters. This should be in the next version.

--Quanah

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