Re: contributed overlays in slapd/overlays

[Pierangelo Masarati <ando@sys-net.it>]

Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:

> It seems many of the overlays in slapd/overlays should be
> moved into contrib/slapd-modules (or contrib/slapd-overlays)....
>  

In principle I agree.  However there's an issue: sometimes people (read: 
customers) prefer to have monolithic software.  A nice feature of 
overlays (and backends and many other components) is that they do build 
as dynamic modules as well, so they can be entirely factored out of 
slapd, but then we lose the possibility to have things monolithic (from 
a system administration and packaging stand point; they're still modules 
from a developer's viewpoint).  I'd prefer to keep the possibility to 
statically build most of the overlays, as soon as they're of some 
general usefulness.  Unfortunately I tend to judge generality biased by 
my personal experience, e.g. by what customers ask us...

p.


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