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[Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales]

Chuck? I'd like your feedback on this. Do you agree?

Regards,

Raphael

On 4/25/06, Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales
<raphael.melo21 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/24/06, Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck at horde.org> wrote:
> > I'm cc:ing the dev list on this mail to keep the whole dev community
> > in the loop; I hope you don't mind. I'd prefer conversations to stay
> > on list to involve other developers as well if you're comfortable with
> > that.
>
> I could have sworn I had sent to the list, not just for you. :) In
> fact, I'd like to have the participation of other developers in this.
>
> > > My idea is to make an application to manage the data from an LDAP
> > > server and make an API for integration with other Horde applications.
> >
> > What kind of integration with other Horde apps do you see being
> > possible? I certainly see a lot of possibilities if there was an LDAP
> > driver layer that could be re-used, but I'm not sure about how other
> > Horde apps would make use of an LDAP management app?
>
> I don't know much about each Horde project's needs from a developer's
> point of view. So I don't think I'd be able to propose an API that
> will be very useful right now.
>
> But, since we have a small head start, I could take the time to ask
> the developers of each Horde project if they'd want something out of
> LDAP and build the API from the answers. See what they want the most
> and start from there.
>
> If we design it properly, current projects and future ones can benefit
> from this. How it's going to be implemented is a modelling problem,
> that I think we can worry about later. :)
>
> >
> > > I'd like to avoid using anything that doesn't come bundled with PHP,
> > > so it would ease up the installation process.
> >
> > Okay. So no Net_LDAP, and you'd be writing some sort of utility layer
> > to either go into the framework packages (under/in addition to
> > Horde_LDAP) or a library that'd be part of your app?
>
> I'd have to study Horde_LDAP first, see what it can do. After defining
> the API, I'd be able to see if I'd need to expand it or not. But I do
> feel strongly about not using extensions that don't come bundled with
> PHP or Horde, so we can minimize the effort of the installation
> process. If we realize during the modelling phase that this is not
> practical, then we can consider using Net_LDAP.
>
> >
> > > Perhaps on a long term, allow users to manage more complex
> > > operations, like permissions and replication servers.
> >
> > With permissions, it'd be very interesting to see if a Perms_ldap
> > backend (to the Horde permissions system) would be possible. There is
> > already an LDAP Groups backend.
>
>     This is a great example of what I want to do this at this first
> moment, figure out what everyone expects to get from LDAP. I think if
> I do a good job at this, the whole thing will go smoothly and we'll
> have a great project on our hands. :)
>
> Regards,
>
> Raphael
>