Fwd: Re: Plans for OpenLDAP 2.4?

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Any thoughts on adding libldif as an installed library? I don't see it having 
any particular stability impact for our code, but it may give packagers a bit 
of heartburn if we add a new library in the middle of a release stream.

re: MozNSS multi-init support - we have already been rolling the MozNSS code 
into RE24, but we've been omitting the configure switches for it because the 
code is still incomplete. Multi-init is one of the key features needed before 
this code will be safe for use by general applications. The issue of 
ciphersuite management still needs to be addressed as well. (The current code 
is usable, under very controlled circumstances...)

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Plans for OpenLDAP 2.4?
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:38:17 -0600
From: Rich Megginson <rmeggins@redhat.com>
Organization: Sec Eng (Directory Server)
To: Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>

Howard Chu wrote:
> Rich Megginson wrote:
> > Do you have a date after which 2.4 branch development will be closed for
> > new enhancements?  We have 2 more features which we would like to get
> > into OpenLDAP in order to be able to use it in our projects:
> > 1) support for NSS multi-init - the guy working on this has a prototype
> > working and has submitted the code to NSS upstream - no ETA yet
> > 2) support for libldif
> >
> > How much time do we have in order to get these features into the 2.4
> > branch?
>
> It seems like we can add both of those without destabilizing any of
> the existing code, so it should be OK. A 2.4.18 release candidate is
> being tested now so it's probably too late for this cut. I'll raise
> this question on the openldap-devel list.
Ok.  Thanks.