Stability of python-ldap

[Paul Sokolovsky]

Hello Michael,

      Thanks, it seems to work fine. I was looking for LDAP module to
convert some SourceForge scripts from Perl to Python. We probably
stick to it instead of popen()ing ldapsearch.


Michael Ströder wrote on Wednesday, December 12, 2001:

MS> Paul Sokolovsky wrote:
>>
>> Michael Ströder wrote on Tuesday, December 11, 2001:
>>
>> MS> Paul Sokolovsky wrote:
>> >>
>> >>   Can the maintainers comment on stability of python-ldap? Can it be
>> >> used for production?
>>
>> MS> Which level of "production"?
>>
>>     When one can use it in a separate product without becoming
>> python-ldap hacker or bother its developers too much ;-)

MS> Look into the examples in Demo/. Please provide more programming
MS> examples if you feel the need for it. Support for LDAP with StartTLS
MS> and LDAP over SSL is currently undocumented and needs testing
MS> (especially things like certificate validation and using client
MS> certs).

>> >> If so, which CVS tag is suggested?
>>
>> MS> Depends on your OS.
>>
>>     Linux.

MS> On Linux you check out recent version and build against recent
MS> OpenLDAP 2 libs (IMHO should be 2.0.12+). There's currently not much
MS> activity in the C wrapper part. Remember not to promise Win32
MS> support to your customers at the moment (or hack OpenLDAP 2 libs
MS> into DLLs yourself).

MS> I'm currently rewriting pure-Python module ldif. Expect the API to
MS> change.

MS> Ciao, Michael.




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