Re: (ITS#6194) Patch - Enhancement - provide LDIF support as libldif

[hyc@symas.com]

rmeggins@redhat.com wrote:
> Full_Name: Rich Megginson
> Version: CVS HEAD (2.4.16+)
> OS: Fedora
> URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/openldap-2.4.16-libldif-20090702.patch
> Submission from: (NULL) (76.113.59.19)
>
>
> This patch allows liblutil to provide the LDIF reading and writing functions as
> public APIs in a libldif, and exposes ldif.h to the public API.

See also ITS#4033; ldif.h only parses LDIF into chunks/records, it's still up 
to the caller to turn these records into something meaningful. In fact libldif 
used to be a library of its own, but in RE22 we made the decision to merge it 
into liblutil because its functionality is so limited. I don't expect we'll 
reverse this decision unless/until it gets enough parsing added to it to make 
it more generally useful.

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>
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