python-ldap-dev

ANN: python-ldap-2.0.0pre14

[<mi...@st...>]

Find a new pre-release of python-ldap:

   http://python-ldap.sourceforge.net/

python-ldap provides an object-oriented API to access LDAP directory
servers from Python programs. It mainly wraps the OpenLDAP 2.x libs for
that purpose. Additionally it contains modules for other LDAP-related
stuff (e.g. processing LDIF, LDAPURLs and LDAPv3 schema).

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Released 2.0.0pre14 2003-10-03

Changes since 2.0.0pre13:

setup.py:
* Some modifications to ease building for Win32
* Added directory Build/ mainly intended for platform-specific
   examples of setup.cfg
* Fixed installing ldap.filter

ldap.ldapobject:
* Added class attribute LDAPObject.network_timeout mapped to
   set_option(ldap.OPT_NETWORK_TIMEOUT,..)
* LDAPObject.search_ext(): Pass arguments serverctrls,clientctrls
   to _ldap.search_ext()

ldap.sasl:
* Added class ldap.sasl.external for handling
   the SASL mechanism EXTERNAL
* Dictionary ldap.sasl.saslmech_handler_class built during import
   for all the known SASL mechanisms derived from class definitions

ldap.schema:
* More graceful handling of KeyError in SubSchema.attribute_types()
* New method SubSchema.get_inheritedattr() for retrieving inherited
   class attributes
* New method SubSchema.get_inheritedobj() for retrieving a
   schema element instance including all inherited class attributes

Re: ANN: python-ldap-2.0.0pre14

[Marc B. <ma...@ms...>]

On Fri, 03 Oct 2003 14:58:43 +0200
Michael Str=F6der <mi...@st...> wrote:

> Find a new pre-release of python-ldap:

Thanks for letting us know.  The OpenBSD port will be updated this weekend.

In TODO you mention that you should "Define common license for all modules"=
.  Have you considere putting everything under the very liberal and very fr=
ee BSD license?  That would make the software as free as it can bee (more f=
ree than GPL).

Then, do you consider adding kerberosV support (which is in OpenLDAP)?  If =
you don't, would you accept a patch if we didi it?

Regards from Switzerland,
Marc

Re: ANN: python-ldap-2.0.0pre14

[<mi...@st...>]

Marc Balmer wrote:
> 
> In TODO you mention that you should "Define common license for all
> modules".  Have you considere putting everything under the very liberal
> and very free BSD license?  That would make the software as free as it
> can bee (more free than GPL).

It's definitely not GPL'ed. My aim is to have a Python style license as 
already stated on the project's summary page. The intention is that you can 
do with python-ldap whatever you are allowed to do with Python itself. Does 
that suit your needs?

> Then, do you consider adding kerberosV support (which is in OpenLDAP)?

Not myself. There is some SASL support for Kerberos.

> If you don't, would you accept a patch if we didi it?

I'm not a C programmer therefore I prefer to keep myself away from sources 
under Modules/. I'd accept a patch provided that you are willing to maintain 
that part in the future (the next ~2 years).

Ciao, Michael.