What is blocking a Samba4 Tech Preview?

tridge at samba.org tridge at samba.org
Sun Dec 18 21:43:34 GMT 2005


 > It'd be nice to win the Vaporware award some time.. I'm sure we can beat Duke
 > Nukem Forever... ;-)

thats a depressing thought!

 > > In the ACL space I don't think that the current (very valuable) work
 > > tridge is doing should block the release of the code.  Instead we should
 > > hard-code the same 'admin write, others read' ACL that Samba3 has.  
 > That's a sane alternative, indeed. 

yep, and then when the ldb ACLs are working we can do an updated
release.

 > Certainly! The Debian packages of Samba4 are a bit more sane now,
 > after a couple of patches from Steinar Gunderson (Sesse for those on
 > IRC), so I hope we can get some Samba4 packages in Debians
 > experimental as well.

I think source only is appropriate for a tech preview. Binary
packaging issues are more important for a later release.

Cheers, Tridge


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