Re: commit: ldap/servers/slapd config.c

[Michael Ströder <michael@stroeder.com>]

Howard Chu wrote:
> Michael Ströder wrote:
> > Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
> > > Come to think of it, one disadvantage of ignoring '-' and '_' rather
> > > than treating them as the same: It somewhat increases the chance of name
> > > clashes with option names in overlays.
> >
> > Yepp. The parameter's prefix should be prepended with a separator
> > (either by hyphen or underscore). Otherwise one has to maintain a prefix
> > code.
>
> True for now, but I expect this sort of consideration to be less 
> important going forward, as we emphasize cn=config and deprecate 
> slapd.conf.

Until now my understanding was that slapd.conf is still supported for 
all upcoming 2.4 releases.

So if you don't want to prevent new parameters from being supported in 
slapd.conf you have to either maintain a prefix code covering all 
parameters or use a separator for defining a separate name space for 
each overlay. Just stripping separators is an information loss.

BTW: I prefer slapd.conf since it makes documentation (operational 
concept) and change management in projects much easier.

Ciao, Michael.