Re: LDAP

From: Cameron Laird (claird_at_lairds.com)
Date: 04/16/04 

Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 22:32:39 -0000

In article <c5kjut$1o0_002@worldnet.att.net>,
R. T. Wurth <rwurth@att.net> wrote:
>In article <mark-F1FDD9.08392213042004@news.cogeco.ca>, Mark Roseman
><mark@markroseman.com> wrote:
>> For anyone doing LDAP in Tcl today, what would you recommend
>> as the best approach for someone wanting to do some fairly
>> simple LDAP queries? Looking for informed recommendations,
>> rather than "here is a list of ten packages that haven't been
>> updated in ten years...".
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Mark
>
>This post is based on a vague recollection of second-hand information.
>Take it with an accordingly-sized grain of salt.
>
>A colleague wanted to write the back end of an LDAP server in Tcl. He
>found OpenLDAP had a Tcl binding, and started to use it. He
>discovered it used an old version of LDAP incompatible with the
>potential client that wanted access via LDAP to portions of our Sybase
>database. When he went back to investigate further, he discovered that
>TCL support in OpenLDAP had been moved to the "Attic," meaning that it
>was obsolete relative to the current head, and that no one was
>supporting it.
>
>We inquired about a commercial support contract, but it seems that
>because we were the only requester, we would have to bear the whole
>cost, which would probably be more than we could afford.
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Ugh. This is more acutely depressing than our lack of
progress on stdlib or TkGS/NextGen/megawidget/OOtip/...;
LDAP ought to be *easy*.

I know LDAP. I have no free time. I have no current
LDAP projects. How many other consumers and producers
are there? 

-- 
Cameron Laird <claird@phaseit.net>
Business:  http://www.Phaseit.net

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