Cleaning up OpenChange

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Tue, 2018-01-23 at 12:29 +1100, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Tue, 2018-01-23 at 02:12 +0100, ser.olmy--- via samba-technical
> wrote:
> > I'm trying to get OpenChange to compile against recent versions of
> > Samba, and I'm making some progress. Currently I'm stuck on the
> > mapiproxy code.
> > 
> > According to the comments in the file, dcesrv_mapiproxy.c (which no
> > longer compiles), it's heavily based on dcesrv_remote.c in Samba.
> > In
> > fact, it seems the programmer just used the Samba file as a
> > template,
> > as even occurences of blank lines with tabs are identical to those
> > in
> > older versions of dcesrv_remote.c in the Samba codebase.
> > 
> > My question: Is there anything I can read to get up to speed about
> > the changes that occurred in Samba 4.5.0, when
> > dcesrv_connection_context was altered? (Except the (entire) Samba
> > source code itself, that is. :)
> 
> I would suggest the git log of the changes that were made to
> dcesrv_remote.c and the rpc_server and try and follow things from
> there. 
> 
> I can probably help if need be.  But do be aware there will be much
> more needed than just fixing that. 
> 
> One thing that was changes is mentioned in the 4.7 release notes,
> where
> a lp hook was removed.  There is probably another way to implement
> that
> however.
> 
> This will be a long road.  I've CC'ed Jelmer who at least has some of
> the OpenChange background, as most of that project has melted away
> sadly.

For future reference, Andrew and I summarized the current status at:

https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/OpenChange

Cheers,

Jelmer
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