Re: ldap.ldapobject.SmartLDAPObject removed

[Andreas B. <bue...@un...>]

Hi Michael,

Am Freitag 05 Februar 2010 13:34:32 schrieb Michael Ströder:
> Michael Ströder wrote:
> > Well, SmartLDAPObject is not well tested nor documented and should
> > probably be removed anyway...
> > [..]
> > Well, tls_cacertfile is simply not used in SmartLDAPObject.__init__().
> > The reason is that OpenLDAP libs 2.3 were not able to set
> > connection-specific SSL options. It should work with OpenLDAP 2.4 under
> > some circumstances but I never got it working.
> >
> > => please either don't use SmartLDAPObject or contribute fixes for it
> > Personally I'd vote for removing it.
>
> In CVS HEAD I've removed the untested and undocumented wrapper class
> ldap.ldapobject.SmartLDAPObject completely. Upcoming release 2.3.11 will
> not contain it anymore. It never worked robustly like intended and it's not
> worth the effort to fix it.

Thanx for the information. We will replace in SmartLDAPObject in one of our 
next releases of the software.

best regards
Andreas

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