Re: [Fwd: GUADEC cancelled due to beer shortage]

[Mark McLoughlin <markmc redhat com>]

On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 04:42, Ben Martin wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-06-27 at 22:39 +0100, Dave Cridland wrote:
 
> > LDAP, fine - it's designed as 'the one true data', but it can be 
> > coerced, just about, into handling per-person data, even if getting 
> > updates is a pain.
> 
> If you dig way way back into the GConf archives, probably a few years,
> you should find a patch that provides an LDAP backend. It is written for
> GConf 1.x but shouldn't be too hard to port across. I don't think I had
> notifications working in it, it was a first patch for read/writing
> values into LDAP which didn't seem to get interest at the time. It has
> been since mentioned that it would be an acceptable patch for GConf but
> my interest in updating it has since been usurped by other projects.

	Kris Rietveld also started another implementation more recently:

  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107926

Cheers,
Mark.