Customer vs Company

[plussier at mindspring.com]

In a message dated: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 09:47:23 CST
Linas Vepstas said:

>Its reasonable to expect 
>the gnucash addressbook to be visible to evolution, and v.v. but very 
>very unfortuantely, therere is no Linux system architecture for this kind 
>of thing. (LDAP is too hard to install/use/administer).

But unfortunately perfectly ideal for this exact use scenario :(

Although, now that I think about it, using OpenLDAP isn't all that 
difficult, nor is installation/setup, especially if done via some 
pacakge management system like RPM or apt-get.  

Granted, a source install/config might be far beyond the 
non-sysadmin, but I wouldn't expect your average GnuCash user to be 
installing from source to begin with.

Since Evolution can query and LDAP server, how difficult would it be 
to get GnuCash to store this type of data into an LDAP server?

I'm in the process of learning LDAP now, and using OpenLDAP, I'm 
finding it to be a relatively simple thing from an implementation 
side.  Even writing the perl code to manipulate the LDAP server in 
the manner I need for my project isn't overly difficult.

Just some random thoughts here.
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