Re: LDAP: bugfix and deprecated OpenLDAP API

From: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
To: Albe Laurenz <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at>
Cc: "Peter Eisentraut *EXTERN*" <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: LDAP: bugfix and deprecated OpenLDAP API
Date: 2013-07-05 12:47:56
Message-ID: CABUevEwjiNPCW_DMri+Ly0r5W-M4x8z3+wNYCUT_OW-9rAxoTg@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Albe Laurenz <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at> wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> Btw., I just checked the source code of Apache, PHP, and PAM, and they
>> are all unconditionally building with LDAP_DEPRECATED. So maybe there
>> is no hurry about this.
>
> I don't think that the old API functions will go away until there
> is a new standard for the LDAP C API, but I have no inside knowledge
> of OpenLDAP.

Based on this, I thikn it's reasonable to not worry about
LDAP_DEPRECATED at this point, and only take that plunge when we
actually *need* some of that functionality.

--
Magnus Hagander
Me: http://www.hagander.net/
Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/

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