[Freeipa-devel] NOTICE: new backend pushed

[Rob Crittenden]

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.

rob
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