Rebranding moving code around.

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Thu Apr 22 21:27:23 MDT 2010


On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 10:18:09AM +0100, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> Hi Jeremy,
> 
> On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 13:31 -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> > In line with the rebranding strategy we spoke about
> > in the last blog, here is a git tree that moves the
> > S3 fileserver code from source3/ to fileserver/ and
> > the winbindd code to authserver/.
> > 
> > http://git.samba.org/?p=jra/samba/.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/shuffle
> > 
> > You still build out of source3/ and source4, as normal,
> > but this is a move towards creating the new samba-fileserver,
> > samba-authserver and samba-ad packages we'll need to do
> > an official Samba4.0 release.
> What does this mean for the SMB server in source4/, are you planning on
> working to make Samba 4 build with fileserver/ ?

I know that's what tridge wants to do. I'm not clever
enough to do that :-). My personal feeling is that changing
the current Samba3 fileserver (renamed just fileserver) to
use the Samba4 (renamed Samba-ad) directory services as separate
processes using IPC is the way to go.

Jeremy.


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