[webstack-discuss] PHP5 Feature Enhancements [LSARC/2009/124 FastTrack timeout 02/27/2009]

[Jeff Trawick]

James Carlson wrote:
> Jeff Trawick writes:
>   
>> James Carlson wrote:
>>     
>>> Has this change (and the reason for it) been discussed with the team
>>> that supports the native Solaris LDAP library?
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> It has been discussed to a small extent.
>>     
>
> That begs the next question: are they in substantial agreement with
> the direction that this team is going?
>   

I've added Doug to the conversation to address that, or to suggest an 
alternate venue.

>   
>> Note that this isn't so much a technical matter of how to get a couple 
>> of specific open source packages to interoperate with the native Solaris 
>> LDAP library as it is a long term consideration for how we accommodate 
>> existing open source applications on the platform.
>>     
>
> Indeed!  That's exactly the issue.
>
> What is the long term strategy here?  Do we get rid of the native
> Solaris LDAP library?  If so, then why hasn't it been marked
> "Obsolete" with OpenLDAP as the replacement?
>
> If that's not the long term strategy, then what exactly is?  Do we
> have such a strategy for LDAP on Solaris?
>
>   
>> All of the LDAP-exploitive packages we know of which are either 
>> potentially in scope for inclusion with the OpenSolaris web stack or 
>> likely added by users already work with OpenLDAP; relatively few of 
>> these packages work properly with native Solaris LDAP.
>>     
>
> I don't think that means that system architecture ought to be
> "designed" by having each individual project vote with its feet.
>
> That's a recipe for chaos.
>
>   
As it looks to the naive observer:

* The system now has two alternative LDAP libraries.
* Traditional Solaris stuff works with the native library just fine 
thank you.
* Open source packages developed on other platforms work fine with OpenLDAP.
** Solaris users of these open source packages for some years now have 
been following instructions to build OpenLDAP and link 
Apache/PHP/whatever with OpenLDAP. We didn't follow the traditional 
advice with the web stack, and it hurts.

Is this a "system architecture" issue?