CVS update: samba/source/param

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Sun Mar 23 18:15:54 EST 2003


On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 18:03, Volker Lendecke wrote:
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> > Sorry to nitpick - but is this parameter name already is use in the SUSE
> > patch?  Or could we change it without breaking existing users?
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> Hmm. I'm not happy with that name either. But SuSE chose it.

I love our commitment to compatibility ;-)

> > 'ldap delete only samba attributes' might be a bit long-winded, but I'm
> > worried with that many contractions it starts to get unclear.
> 
> tng uses 'ldap delete dn' which is opposite logic but a lot shorter. I
> think I like that better. What do you think about aliasing them and
> saying 'deprecated'?

You would need to put a 'handle...' helper in loadparm.c to handle the
inverse, but I think it's worth the mess.  It's is much clearer about
what it does.  Go for it.

Andrew Bartlett

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