include OpenLDAP

[nicolaus]

Hi Fred and PB Team,

one of my wishes is to include LDAP / Active Directory functions in PB. So is there a chance to include OpenLDAP ( www.openldap.org ) or so in PB?
I think that this is a nice way to bring PB forward to more bussines development and opens new doors for more customer for PB.

Hope you take a look to implement my wish in the next version of PB.

Thanks,
Nico

[Rings]

hu, what is the target of that thingy ?

i cannot see (and i have not time to study the docs)
the benefit of that library/tool .

clear the fog please

[Progi1984]

OpenLDAP enables you to write applications to access, manage, update, and search for information stored in directories accessible using LDAPv3, like an Active Directory.

[Rings]

any practical description ?

[nicolaus]

any practical description ?

Yes, many. You must only develop bussines software and you need it all the time!!!
In a bigger company all user accounts, authentication, user rights, software rights and all this stuff working with AD / LDAP.
It means that you account to logon to windows is also the account to logon in a software, it works toggether with exchange and many many more.

If you work to develop bussines software you need it to build a good and spezial software for customers.

[zogre]

I agree with nicolaus on his last post, this feature would make it very attractive for commercial business applications. My mouth waters thinking of some of the possibilities...

[Demivec]

any practical description ?

Here is a link to a good description and the always present wikipedia.

[nicolaus]

and the good point for PB is that PB will go 10 steps forward for a better developer system.
For me PB looks at this time more like a game developer studio and i wish the it gose more like a professional studio where you can also develop nice and good bussines software.

[Fred]

You can just wrap the lib and import the functions if it's the only thing which prevent PB to be used professionally.. You are a professional, shouldn't be an issue for you ?

[nicolaus]

You can just wrap the lib and import the functions if it's the only thing which prevent PB to be used professionally.. You are a professional, shouldn't be an issue for you ?

@Fred
i havend mean itz bad!!
But you dont think it is a good way to include native support for AD / LDAP? It is also hard to do it with the windows API and a native set of functions will be nice.

I love your work and PB so dont think wrong about my post!!!

[zogre]

I love PB for many reasons but the greatest reason for me is how it removes so many layers of complexity.

You can just wrap the lib and import the functions if it's the only thing which prevent PB to be used professionally.. You are a professional, shouldn't be an issue for you ?

[Innesoft]

and the good point for PB is that PB will go 10 steps forward for a better developer system.
For me PB looks at this time more like a game developer studio and i wish the it gose more like a professional studio where you can also develop nice and good bussines software.

PB's strengths are in app dev with some pretty minimal game dev stuff built-in. I wouldn't want OpenLDAP stuck in there as extra bloat, when I could just use the library as and when it's needed (if ever).

..and opens new doors for more customer for PB..

I think it would open 1 door for OpenLDAP to be included in another product. Where's the benefit to PB users? As for 'professionalism', that's a marketing superlative, not a feature.

Seems like a useful 3rd-party lib though, and I hope it stays that way.

[nicolaus]

and the good point for PB is that PB will go 10 steps forward for a better developer system.
For me PB looks at this time more like a game developer studio and i wish the it gose more like a professional studio where you can also develop nice and good bussines software.

PB's strengths are in app dev with some pretty minimal game dev stuff built-in. I wouldn't want OpenLDAP stuck in there as extra bloat, when I could just use the library as and when it's needed (if ever).

..and opens new doors for more customer for PB..

I think it would open 1 door for OpenLDAP to be included in another product. Where's the benefit to PB users? As for 'professionalism', that's a marketing superlative, not a feature.

Seems like a useful 3rd-party lib though, and I hope it stays that way.

OpenLDAP is more a example and it is also not so easy to use the windows API for stuff like AD / LDAP.
And if we see it so i can also say "why include OGRE native in PB becaus the user can wrapp it all what he need...." and i mean this NOT BAD!!!!
But you see what i mean?

[Innesoft]

OpenLDAP is more a example and it is also not so easy to use the windows API for stuff like AD / LDAP.
And if we see it so i can also say "why include OGRE native in PB becaus the user can wrapp it all what he need...." and i mean this NOT BAD!!!!
But you see what i mean?

Yeah I understand your point, and in my case I could do without the native Ogre, as I wrap irrlicht for my graphics needs. I'd do the same with OpenLDAP if I needed it. I think PB is extremely proficient with library support, so integrating every nice lib that comes along only adds to the bloat IMO.

As for OpenLDAP, I wasn't knocking it.. I'll probably use it in future projects.