VOTE: proposal to strip out pdb_context and pdb_methods chaining

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Sat Feb 11 00:02:03 GMT 2006


On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 17:45 -0600, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
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> Andrew Bartlett wrote:
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> > I rather liked the pdb_context part of the design 
> > (particularly due to migration stuff), but I realise it is
> > not in favour any more.
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> I know.  It wasn't a bad idea.  It's just a little heavy and
> cumbersome to maintain.  The push at the moment is to simplify
> as much as possible which will help in testing since it will
> also reduce the code paths.

If we just had one possible set of methods per pdb_context (half your
proposal), would that allow the code to be simplified, without the need
for export to text or similar for any pdb2pdb operation?

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Student Network Administrator, Hawker College  http://hawkerc.net
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