Samba backends

[Gerald Carter]

On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Shahms E. King wrote:

> Gerald Carter wrote:
>
> At present I am not working with that interface because it is not in
> 2.2 yet. (Coincidentally, I was about to begin implementing something
> similar to the interface in HEAD, when I checked it out, and saw that
> it was already being worked on).  But I have looked at that interface
> and have been "preparing" to do a port for head.  Given that I haven't
> been able to devote a lot of time to it until, well, this week, I'm
> still cleaning up some of the code and trying to stick to some
> coherent schema design, rather than the three or more conflicting
> schemas in the current code-base.

The reason I mention it is that the 2.2 interface will be replaced
soon (within in the next few months).

> I've already implemented a new configure option (probably temporary,
> not sure) for switching between these, but since I'm not finished
> fully implementing even one of them, it doesn't really DO anything
> yet, other than provide me a nice place to stick the relevant
> non-working code . . .

I would just focus on HEAD and I will make sure this makes it
in 2.2






cheers, jerry
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