From: Wilson Bilkovich <wilsonb@...>
Date: 2006-05-02T08:37:50+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Net::LDAP 0.0.1

On 5/1/06, Steven A Hansen <runner@berkeley.edu> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> What is the difference between this LDAP package and the one currently maintained by Ian
> Macdonald:
>
> http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/ruby-ldap/
>
> More specifically, is there an obvious reason to use your ldap package as opposed to the already
> existing one?
>

The existing one is a C extension, and up until very recently did not
build cleanly on Windows.
This one is pure Ruby, and doesn't require OpenLDAP, Microsoft
Platform SDK, etc.
Also, this one seems to have much better documentation.  Good luck
figuring out what the differences between the various search() methods
are in the C-based libraries.