From: "Luke A. Kanies" <luke@...>
Date: 2003-12-17T07:39:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie questions

On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Daniel Berger wrote:

> "Luke A. Kanies" wrote:
>
> >Frankly, it doesn't matter to me which one, as long as there's something.
> >I'm already starting to feel like a crack addict without a pipe or
> >lighter.  I wrote a small amount in perl yesterday for the first time in
> >about a month, and it was, um, horrible.  I left out all the semicolons
> >and parens and dollar signs, just like in ruby, and it didn't work.  :(
> >Unfortunately, perl has a very mature selection of modules which I've come
> >to depend on, with Net::LDAP being at the top of the list for me (I'm a
> >sysadmin, and I store lotsa stuff in LDAP), because it's all perl and
> >includes SSL support.  I expect as I use ruby more I'll delve into helping
> >out on the ldap module.
>
> See ruby-ldap on the RAA.  Dunno about ssl support.

Yeah, I'm using it (and getting segfaults :), but it has to be compiled
against C libraries, whereas Net::LDAP is entirely in perl, depending
(almost) entirely on other perl libraries.  This makes portability a
heckuva lot easier, and also reduces the amount you have to distribute to
get ldap working everywhere.  I use LDAP a heckuva lot, and I generally do
ldap operations on all of my hosts sometimes, which means I need this
everywhere, and the easier that is for me, the happier I am.

As to SSL, ruby-ldap does not yet support it.  I don't know if I'm up to
helping provide it, either; most of my experience is in perl and shell,
and I'd like to continue my streak of successfully avoiding programming in
C.  :)

Luke

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