rust in Samba (for certificate auto-enrolment)

[David Mulder]

On 11/13/23 11:42 AM, Andrew Bartlett via samba-technical wrote:
> On Mon, 2023-11-13 at 15:28 +0100, Ralph Boehme via samba-technical
> wrote:
>> On 11/13/23 14:56, David Mulder via samba-technical wrote:
>>> I'd additionally like to be able to contribute rust code to Samba,
>>> and
>>> I'm certainly glad to see someone wanting to work on certificate
>>> auto
>>> enrollment. I know there is some opposition to providing rust code
>>> in
>>> Samba, I think because of platform support.
>> iirc this was about AIX for which we do provide our SAMBA+ packages,
>> but
>> last time I checked several months ago AIX support was about to be
>> released in rust, so this is likely not an issue anymore.
> I would love to see some ways to start trying rust in Samba.  We will
> only really know how we feel about it once we actually start using it
> in anger, and our packagers start trying to package the result etc.
>
> Things that don't touch the core file server offering are clearly going
> to be the easiest targets, while we start to understand what working
> with rust will means for Samba.
>
> So I think this is an ideal place to start.
>
> Python was in the same boat for a while, and so there is a
> --without-python build we test that only uses python for the
> build, but produces no python requirements in a bare fileserver.
>
> That helped us get over the line.
I've also thought of writing some AAD/Entra ID stuff in Rust for Samba.

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