[PATCH] tevent glib event loop glue

[Ralph Boehme]

On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 10:53:12AM +0100, Stefan Metzmacher wrote:
> Hi Ralph,
> 
> > On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 07:51:54AM -0500, Simo wrote:
> >> Is there any chance we can build glib support into a loadable module
> >> rather than having to compile it into samba or not ?
> > 
> > The patchset doesn't change the current situation: since 4.3 if you
> > configure with --enable-spotlight, you'll pull in glib. If you don't,
> > you don't.
> > 
> >> I would rather not increase the dependency tree for a normal install if
> >> possible ...
> > 
> > I have another patchset (mostly ready) that reintroduces loadable RPC
> > modules (because that's where this gets actually used in the mdssvc
> > RPC service aka Spotlight). But iirc metze said there wre reasons to
> > remove this future in the past and this shouldn't be
> > resurrected. metze?
> 
> Maintaining an API that's useful for external RPC services
> needs to be future proof!

$ ls bin/modules/
auth  bind9  gensec  idmap  ldb  nss_info  pdb  perfcount
process_model  rpc  service  vfs
$

Sorry, but I fail to see the inherent difference between rpc modules
and idmap modules or any of the other subsystems that use modules.

-Ralph

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