source3 and source4

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Sat Apr 27 10:41:37 MDT 2013


On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 04:30:40PM +0200, Aurélien Aptel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> As part of my GSoC project I started to look at samba source code
> (smbclient) to see where the tar code is implemented.
> 
> So there are 2 source dir, one for each version, even in tarball
> releases of the latest samba4, but the two are mixed because the tar
> command line seem to be handled in the source3 dir only. Is this
> correct? Why are there 2 versions of smbclient?
> I'm not sure I understand this version separation well.

Ignore the smbclient version in source4, it was a rewrite
that didn't get finished (real software development is
sometimes very messy :-).

Jeremy.


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