Re: Is development dead?

On 19 Sep 2009, at 14:24, Graham Barr wrote:

> 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 ?

I would agree that base64's safer, but I'm not sure I wrote that bit  
of code. Change the default to base64 IMHO.

Cheers,

Chris