"Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull(a)sk.tsukuba.ac.jp&gt; writes: > >>>>> "-BP" == William M Perry <wmperry(a)aventail.com&gt; writes: > > -BP> To merge the LDAP code, you would have to do a major overhaul > -BP> of the existing database code, and I'm not sure you would be > -BP> able to get the full power of LDAP without making the > -BP> 'normal' databases pretty difficult to use. > > OK, that's why it might be hard. It still sounds like it's a good > idea to me. Perhaps, but I think that the code to do anything ldap-ish would still look very ldap-ish as opposed to abstract-database-ish.