[Mono-list] Mono LDAP Status

[Jason Raneses]

It would be ideal to develop a fully managed provider, but I had an
immediate need to get at least a subset of the API up and working,
and the easiest route to go was to wrap the C libraries.  My long
term goal is for the library to not have any unmanaged dependencies
whatsoever, and I plan on removing them over time by implementing the
functionality provided by the C libraries in native C#.

It would be stellar to have the guys from Novell involved in this if
they are interested.  Does anyone have anything concrete on their
time frame for making a decision to join the development?

Jason

---- Original Message ----
From: bmaurer@users.sourceforge.net
To: banderso@novell.com
Subject: Re: [Mono-list] Mono LDAP Status
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 00:12:40 -0400

>Hello Brady,
>> Novell's Directory Services team is also evaluating the work 
>necessary
>> for implementing the System.DirectoryServices class in Mono.  I am
>> currently working on a project at Novell that is using Mono and 
>need
>> this class ASAP.  I would like to see the class implemented all in
>> managed code for deployment and management reasons.
>I agree this would be the best path. However, it would also be the
>longest. If you need the code "ASAP", you are not going to get it 
>with
>an all managed provider. Long term, however, this is the best plan.
>> Since I'm new to Open Source, I'm not sure how this works where 
>three
>> parties are interesting in implementing the same class.
>We use CVS (Cuncurent Versioning System), a common Open Source
>versioning program, to allow multiple people to work on something at 
>the
>same time. It is just like inside Novell, except your coworker might
>live on the other side of the world ;-).
>
>I think having some NDS people on the Sys.DS team would be ideal.
>
>-- Ben
>
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