Re: Is development dead?

On Sep 15, 2009, at 2:36 PM, Graham Barr wrote:
>>>> On Sep 4, 2009, at 2:40 PM, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
>>>>> Just curious... I see no commits to git since 10/2008.  I sent a
>>>>> private email a while back about a nasty issue with  
>>>>> Net::LDAP::LDIF
>>>>> when used with UTF8 characters.
>>>>
>>>> No it is not dead. Things have just been a bit crazy for me  
>>>> recently.
>>>>
>>>> I obviously missed your private email. please resend.
>>>
>>> Thanks!  I'll track it down today and resend it.  And I completely
>>> understand about times getting crazy. ;)
>>
>> Ok, I resent the email yesterday.  Can you confirm you received  
>> it? :)
>
> Yes I got it. Seems a strange situation but I will try to look at it  
> this week.

Quanah,

I took a look at your example. The issue is that the DN has non-ascii  
characters in it, but the encode option to Net::LDAP::LDIF is left at  
thte default value of 'none'. 'none' seems an odd default as it can  
generate invalid output. I think it was meant more for quick debugging  
output as base64 hides the data. 'base64' would seem a more reasonable  
default to me.

Chris, You made this code change back in 2001

http://github.com/gbarr/perl-ldap/commit/234d7da34091ade7286593730eaf55267fc6eb41

It was a long time ago so you probably cannot remember why you chose  
'none', but would you not agree that 'base64' is a better default ?

Graham.