Is development dead?
Quanah Gibson-Mount
email a while back about a nasty issue with Net::LDAP::LDIF when used with
UTF8 characters.
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Quanah Gibson-Mount
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Chris Ridd
On 4 Sep 2009, at 20:40, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> Just curious... I see no commits to git since 10/2008. I sent a
> private email a while back about a nasty issue with Net::LDAP::LDIF
> when used with UTF8 characters.
Are you looking at the git repo?
Cheers,
Chris
Quanah Gibson-Mount
<chri...@mac.com> wrote:
Yeah, I was looking at the online git bit... But I see the link there
limits it to the 0.39 release by default. :P Still, even after adjusting
for that, there hasn't been much going on. :/
<http://git.goingon.net/?p=perl-ldap.git;a=shortlog>
Still shows 2008/11/12 as the last time something happened:
description Perl LDAP client library
owner Graham Barr
last change Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:29:39 +0000
URL git://git.goingon.net/perl-ldap.git
Chris Ridd
On 5 Sep 2009, at 19:26, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> --On Saturday, September 05, 2009 6:48 PM +0100 Chris Ridd <chri...@mac.com
> > wrote:
>
>>
>> On 4 Sep 2009, at 20:40, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
>>
>>> Just curious... I see no commits to git since 10/2008. I sent a
>>> private email a while back about a nasty issue with Net::LDAP::LDIF
>>> when used with UTF8 characters.
>>
>> Are you looking at the git repo?
>
> Yeah, I was looking at the online git bit... But I see the link
> there limits it to the 0.39 release by default. :P Still, even
> after adjusting for that, there hasn't been much going on. :/
>
> <http://git.goingon.net/?p=perl-ldap.git;a=shortlog>
>
> Still shows 2008/11/12 as the last time something happened:
> description Perl LDAP client library
> owner Graham Barr
> last change Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:29:39 +0000
> URL git://git.goingon.net/perl-ldap.git
Graham's the only person with commit access right now.
Apart from bug fixes (guess there could be some?) what would you like
to change/add to perl-ldap?
Cheers,
Chris
Quanah Gibson-Mount
wrote:
> On Sep 4, 2009, at 2:40 PM, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
>> Just curious... I see no commits to git since 10/2008. I sent a
>> private email a while back about a nasty issue with Net::LDAP::LDIF
>> when used with UTF8 characters.
>
> No it is not dead. Things have just been a bit crazy for me recently.
>
> I obviously missed your private email. please resend.
Graham,
Thanks! I'll track it down today and resend it. And I completely
understand about times getting crazy. ;)
Quanah Gibson-Mount
<qua...@zimbra.com> wrote:
> --On Monday, September 14, 2009 9:01 AM -0500 Graham Barr
> <gb...@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sep 4, 2009, at 2:40 PM, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
>>> Just curious... I see no commits to git since 10/2008. I sent a
>>> private email a while back about a nasty issue with Net::LDAP::LDIF
>>> when used with UTF8 characters.
>>
>> No it is not dead. Things have just been a bit crazy for me recently.
>>
>> I obviously missed your private email. please resend.
>
> Graham,
>
> Thanks! I'll track it down today and resend it. And I completely
> understand about times getting crazy. ;)
Ok, I resent the email yesterday. Can you confirm you received it? :)
Thanks,
Chris Ridd
On 19 Sep 2009, at 14:24, Graham Barr wrote:
> On Sep 15, 2009, at 2:36 PM, Graham Barr wrote:
>>>>> On Sep 4, 2009, at 2:40 PM, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
>>>>>> Just curious... I see no commits to git since 10/2008. I sent a
>>>>>> private email a while back about a nasty issue with
>>>>>> Net::LDAP::LDIF
>>>>>> when used with UTF8 characters.
>>>>>
>>>>> No it is not dead. Things have just been a bit crazy for me
>>>>> recently.
>>>>>
>>>>> I obviously missed your private email. please resend.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks! I'll track it down today and resend it. And I completely
>>>> understand about times getting crazy. ;)
>>>
>>> Ok, I resent the email yesterday. Can you confirm you received
>>> it? :)
>>
>> Yes I got it. Seems a strange situation but I will try to look at
>> it this week.
>
> Quanah,
>
> I took a look at your example. The issue is that the DN has non-
> ascii characters in it, but the encode option to Net::LDAP::LDIF is
> left at thte default value of 'none'. 'none' seems an odd default as
> it can generate invalid output. I think it was meant more for quick
> debugging output as base64 hides the data. 'base64' would seem a
> more reasonable default to me.
>
> Chris, You made this code change back in 2001
>
> http://github.com/gbarr/perl-ldap/commit/234d7da34091ade7286593730eaf55267fc6eb41
>
> It was a long time ago so you probably cannot remember why you chose
> 'none', but would you not agree that 'base64' is a better default ?
I would agree that base64's safer, but I'm not sure I wrote that bit
of code. Change the default to base64 IMHO.
Cheers,
Chris