[Freeipa-devel] NOTICE: new backend pushed

[Simo Sorce]

On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 13:50 -0400, Rob Crittenden wrote:
> I just pushed about 20 patches that officially switches to Pavel's new 
> LDAP backend. This removes the object-based LDAP model we used in v1 and 
> had ported to v2.
> 
> This significantly improves our automated search filter writing so we 
> should be able to do lots of new and clever things and make the *-find 
> commands much smarter.
> 
> It also adds a slew more base classes for us to subclass from, making 
> plugin programming even simpler.
> 
> The old model still exists in the tree because it is used by the 
> installer, ipa-ldap-updater and the replication utilities. Those will be 
> migrated over to something new over time.
> 
> It passes all of our unit tests and I ran through a bunch of other 
> manual tests so I think in general it is pretty solid.
> 
> One major change from the user perspective is that the data coming out 
> will be both more verbose and more consistent (gotta love inheritance). 
> Otherwise it should work more or less the same as the old plugin. The 
> one different is the automount commands have been renamed but we'll 
> argue that point next week :-)
> 
> I'm so convinced this is solid that I'm pushing it out the day before a 
> 3-day holiday weekend in the U.S. How is that for confidence.
> 
> Kudos to Pavel for the good work.

Yeah kudos to Pavel and the superconfident Rob :-)

Very good work guys.

Simo.

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Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York