[Calendarserver-maintainers] Bug#503727: Bug#503727: allow apache.BasicDirectoryService to work

[Guido Günther]

forwarded 503727 http://trac.calendarserver.org/ticket/305

Hi Thomas,
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 10:05:17PM +0100, Thomas Viehmann wrote:
> it would appear that apache.BasicDirectoryService is difficult to get to
> work.
> Note that the two parts might best be applied separately.
> In config.py, parts of the code seem to explicitly cater for
> non-preconfigured DirectoryServices, while the two the patch is changing
> are not. (You possibly had similar a similar problem for the
> NssDirectoryService.)
> The second part moves the apache DirectoryServices to the
> configured-via-keyword-args scheme. Naturally, the two assertions could
> be replaced by checks with prettier exceptions to be raised for failures.
> I did briefly join #calendarserver on freenode, but noone seemed to be
> around when I asked about what is up with the apache DirectoryServices.
The patch looks sane to me, thanks. I'll just recheck with upstream
before applying it.
Cheers,
 -- Guido