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

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
> Howard Chu writes:
> > Michael Ströder wrote:
> > > 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.
>
> The same goes for all of this discussion.  The cn=config attribute
> names use neither '-' nor '_'.

True, but they don't need special prefixes because their attributes are 
context-sensitive. I.e., their behavior is totally dependent on what config 
entry they appear in.

> In any case, deprecating slapd.conf looks to be years in the future to
> me.

Agreed, I'm talking long term, not overnight.

> It's much easier to read and write (correctly:-) than cn=config,

I think that's only because we all have 10+ years experience with slapd.conf 
files. If you read the steps in openldap.ldif it's really not that hard to get 
used to the LDIF format.

> and so are things like replacing an included schema version.

Not sure I agree with that... Considering that you can do it on the fly with 
cn=config, and you can also replace the individual schema.ldif files if you're 
working offline.

> Though
> you could take slapd.conf support out of slapd right now and instead
> make a separate slapconf tool which translates it to cn=config.

No need to take that step.

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