[Fedora-directory-users] How about support on Windows ?

[Jeff Medcalf]

At 5:09 PM -0600 6/3/05, Rich Megginson wrote:
>Bacchu, Anjan wrote:
>>LDAP is seriously needed (and missing) on enterprise infrastructures and
>>support for Windows(as Firefox showed) will take a product much 
>>further than without windows.
>>
>Really?  Up until DS 7.0, we supported the DS on Windows for several 
>years.  We found that most people with Windows deployments either 
>used Active Directory (since they already paid for it), or they were 
>using Samba on unix/linux.  Almost everyone who was downloading and 
>using the DS on Windows were just doing it for demonstration and/or 
>evaluation purposes (including the press), because they just wanted 
>to run it on their x86 desktop or laptop, and in those days that 
>necessarily meant Windows.  But with the growth of Linux, I can 
>happily run DS 7.1on my RHEL3 desktop or my RHEL4 laptop.  Most 
>people planning serious deployments eventually used Unix for the 
>production LDAP server, and now many are using Linux.

Having the console available from Windows is a definite plus, and I 
certainly used the Windows version frequently for quick proofs of 
concept, or for messing with concepts when I didn't have a UNIX test 
machine and just needed to test configuration or what have you, so 
yes a Windows build would be useful.  And given the general 
preferability of binary builds for platforms that don't tend to come 
with development environments (makes it easy to download and run at a 
client's site to show them something that needs to be demonstrated), 
it seems to me that a binary build for Windows would be more helpful 
than one for MacOS X or Linux, though probably not more useful than 
one for Solaris.

-jeff