An analysis about a generic desktop application configuration management system

[P. Kaluza]

Havoc Pennington wrote:

>On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 11:20 +0200, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
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>>Afaik LDAP doesn't do notifications (but please correct me if I'm
>>wrong).
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>Most LDAP servers have an extension for it you can dynamically check for
>and use. IIRC there was a standard extension in progress at one point, I
>don't know if it's been finalized.
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The IETF workgroup chartered with that produced some drafts (by now 
expired), but AFAIK nothing more yet. The OpenLDAP coders came up with a 
competing protocol suggestion called "LDAP Sync"¹. This is geared 
towards server- as well as client-replicas, including push notification, 
so would IMHO quite fit DConf's needs. :-) Not that this is important 
right now.

>>However. It will work together with existing ACAP implementations.
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>Except nobody uses ACAP. This is the most irrelevant feature I can
>imagine.
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Exactly. Philip, if you are aware of any ACAP deployments, could you 
provide pointers ?

Bye,
  Philipp


¹ http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin22/syncrepl.html