svn commit: samba r10721 - in branches/SAMBA_4_0/source/pidl/lib/Parse/Pidl/Samba3: .

Tim Potter tpot at samba.org
Wed Oct 5 06:52:55 GMT 2005


On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 16:06 +1000, tridge at samba.org wrote:
> Jelmer,
> 
>  > Example output is still available at http://samba.org/~jelmer/pidl_samba3/
> 
> Wouldn't it be easier to keep the same generated code as Samba4, and
> just replace the C ndr encoding glue? Is there some reason we need to
> use a different form for the generated code?
> 
> Ideally I'd like to see all of librpc/ ported back, but if we can't do
> that for some reason then going half way and keeping the generated
> code would at least allow future work on pidl to be shared between
> Samba3 and Samba4. 

There really isn't that much work to do to rewrite the porting glue.
It's the approach I took in the (still unfinished) ntacl-lsm module in
the lorikeet repository.  

Not sure whether it still works or not but it's not terribly hard to do.


Tim.




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