Re: gnome-about-me

[JP Rosevear <jpr novell com>]

On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 19:50 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Also dont' forget that Evolution has some (all) of this information, so
> > your app could also just be an additional simple front-end to e-d-s.
> > Especially if e-d-s already has (or will have) hooks for updating the
> > system user information.
> 
> Evolution seems to favour Novell Groupwise LDAP formats over pure
> RFC2307 formats[1]. One of the things any infrastructure like this is
> going to have to do is to support the interpretation of a lot of
> different LDAP profiles each designed by one large company or another to
> lock customers into their proprietary components.

What are you basing this claim on? We have no groupwise specific LDAP
code it place (I'm not even aware of any work arounds).  We don't even
use LDAP for groupwise support, there is a separate SOAP based groupwise
addressbook backend.

-JP
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JP Rosevear <jpr novell com>
Novell, Inc.