Fwd: [pyasn1-users] ANN: pyasn1-0.0.13a & pyasn1-modules-0.0.1a released

[Michael Ströder]

Rich Megginson wrote:
> RHEL does not include pyasn1.  But it is extremely useful for 
> extops/controls - doing BER codec by hand is not fun.

Yupp!

>  A mid-way 
> approach would be to expose the liblber ber_scanf/ber_printf and support 
> functions in python.

Also an idea we already had. But I'm not a C programmer. So I'll stay away
from that myself.

But I will happily add a nice Python layer on top of your code. ;-}
Make the C wrapper code as lean as possible.

> If you do decide that it is necessary for python-ldap to use pyasn1, we 
> can work on getting it into RHEL.  The Fedora python-pyasn1 maintainer 
> is one of the guys on the freeipa team which uses python-ldap heavily.

Noted.

Ciao, Michael.