Re: clientgen...

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton (lkcl@regent.push.net)
Thu, 16 Apr 1998 12:39:34 +0000 (GMT)

Date:	Thu, 16 Apr 1998 12:39:34 +0000 (GMT)
From:	Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@regent.push.net>
To:	Multiple recipients of list <samba-technical@samba.anu.edu.au>, Bartlomiej Czardybon <czar@silesia.pik-net.pl>
Subject: Re: clientgen...
In-Reply-To: <19980416094718.03001@david.silesia.pik-net.pl>

On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Bartlomiej Czardybon wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 09:02:58AM +1000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> >
> > > Here is one question: is there going to be done effort to make from
> > > clientgen.c consistent and in some way not connected with samba itself,
> > > set of functions, kind of library, which could be used by developers
> > > of client programs ?
> >
> > take a look at http://www.cb1.com/~lkcl/pam_ntdom - i have already done
> > exactly this, going further by sub-dividing the dce/rpc code and the smb
> > lib code _both_ into separate libraries.
> >
>
> i havent taken a look at it, but it sounds very well :-)
> But... all my doubts were connected with this:
>
> You can separate smblib from main samba code, but how are You going to
> keep it in state with original samba code, which is being continously changed ?

i'm on the samba team, so i can update things as-and-when :)

i was considering splitting the client code into a separate library, and
putting it at the same level as the samba distribution. this kind of
structural change would need to meet with approval from the other team
members.

luke