Sync with gnome releases

[Alan Orndorff]

Chris Browne wrote:
> 
> > > I guess we're still on a separate page.  I envision gnucash as an ldap
> > > server, and things like evolution would be the ldap client.   The details
> > > of storing the data are up to gnucash, and not some distant server.
> > > Why is this?
> >
> > So are you going to move openldap into your source tree or are you
> > going to create your own ldap server as part of gnucash???
> >
> > Having a real hard time with that statement above.
> 
> Hopefully the statement isn't literal, but is rather intended as "envisioning
> GnuCash as a financial _equivalent_ to an LDAP server."
> 
> If there are perfectly good LDAP servers out there, there's NO reason for
> GnuCash to replicate this.
> 
> The approach of having BOTH GnuCash and Evolution connect to an LDAP
> client would seem preferable, as that allows them _both_ to stay away
> from the details of managing the data, and allows _both_ to access the
> same data equally well.
> --
> (reverse (concatenate 'string "gro.mca@" "enworbbc"))
> http://vip.hyperusa.com/~cbbrowne/sap.html
> "The Linux  philosophy is laugh in  the face of  danger.  Oops.  Wrong
> One.  'Do it yourself.'  That's it."  -- Linus Torvalds

Literal or envisioning doesn't matter, whether the LDAP server is part
of
GNUcash or seperate doesn't matter, or maybe it might.  Why, Solaris 8
includes
a 200,000 object license for iPlanet Directory Server so that's really
cool. :-)

Now, if your not familiar with LDAP, what do you do?  Pay SUN $2500 for
a three-five
day class so you can learn to admin LDAP so you can install your free
copy of 
GNUcash or buy a brand new machine, pay for windows, pay for quicken and
still 
be cheaper than running GNUcash???  Don't get it.  I understand LDAP and
can 
see the possibilities that Linas is driving at, but when you get to this
endpoint,
assuming you keep on this track, what happens to your userbase then?

just wondering out loud!

alan

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