From: Luke Kanies <luke@...>
Date: 2006-08-19T02:18:00+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Net::LDAP 0.0.4 released

On Aug 15, 2006, at 4:10 PM, Francis Cianfrocca wrote:
>
>
> I've talked to several people who have pointed out that the native   
> LDAP
> library has a variety of problems, including working  (well, not  
> working)
> with Ruby threads, because of the way it does IO internally. Can't  
> explain
> the problem with Webrick but if we do our job right, there will be  
> no reason
> to use native LDAP in preference to pure Ruby.
>
> Apropos, does anyone out there have any reasons why they must use  
> native
> LDAP as opposed to Net::LDAP? Missing features? Bugs?

I don't do as much with LDAP these days (although I did a bunch of  
Rails LDAP work in February), but I'm really excited that you're  
building this native Ruby library.  I went through the same  
transition in perl from perl-wrapped compiled libraries to pure-perl  
libraries, and it made a *huge* difference in the reliability and  
simplicity of the libraries.

I'm also excited that you're flexible about the interface; the native  
LDAP library was a bit too close to the actual LDAP library  
interfaces, which are not exactly easy to use.

So, thanks.  I look forward to using this for my next LDAP project.   
I'll definitely be providing feedback when I have occasion to use.

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