An analysis about a generic desktop application configuration management system

[David Collier-Brown]

  Just for information, it's relatively trivial to read the
change log from LDAP and, when a change that is of interest
to you occurs, to query LDAP for the relevant data and send
it to a non-LDAP-aware program.
  One of my folks did so as a perl script for a single LDAP
server in an afternoon. Making it high-availability with
multiple LDAPs took a bit longer (:-))

--dave

Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 01:03 +0200, P. Kaluza wrote:
> 
>>Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> 
>>>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.
> 
>  
> 
>>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.
> 
> 
> Sounds very useful indeed (and feel free to add information about this
> on the wiki).
> 
> 
>>>>However. It will work together with existing ACAP implementations.
> 
> 
>>>Except nobody uses ACAP. This is the most irrelevant feature I can
>>>imagine.
> 
> 
>>Exactly. Philip, if you are aware of any ACAP deployments, could you 
>>provide pointers ?
> 
> 
> Well, I'd say if D-Conf uses ACAP, you can suddenly create many
> deployments. And that will for sure increase the interest in the ACAP
> specification.
> 
> Nevertheless you're right that it doesn't mean ACAP is a proven
> specification whereas LDAP is. So 1 - 0 for LDAP :-)
> 
> But I'm not excluding LDAP. Just trying to get an idea of the different
> systems that could be used (note that the diagrams on the wiki are just
> drafts -- I know they have "ACAP"-stuff, these are just replaceable
> ideas --).
> 
> 
> 

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