Michael Ströder wrote: > On 3/18/19 5:15 PM, Howard Chu wrote: >> I noticed that OpenSSL 1.1 now has an explicit dependency on Pthreads. Which >> means that now >> even our "non-threaded" libldap, when built with OpenSSL, must actually be >> linked with the >> threads library. In this age of multicore processors, is it really important >> to have a single-threaded >> LDAP library any more? Should we just make libldap_r become the standard >> library? > > Mainstream Linux distributions started to remove libldap anyway. > So +1 to abandon it.
I would probably keep "libldap" as the canonical name. We can completely drop the "libldap_r" name or just keep it as a symlink for a while, removing it after a year or so. -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/
