[Kolab-devel] why not ship Kolab with Samba by default?

[Tomasz Chmielewski]

Richard Bos wrote:
> Op zondag 31 mei 2009 12:37:56 schreef Tomasz Chmielewski:
>> Richard Bos wrote:
>>> Op zondag 31 mei 2009 12:21:22 schreef Tomasz Chmielewski:
>>>> BTW, I committed a Kolab-Samba integration HOWTO a few years ago -
>>>> http://wpkg.org/kolab - now slightly outdated for Kolab 2.2.x.
>>> All samba related efforts are collected on this wiki page:
>>> http://wiki.kolab.org/index.php/Samba_PDC_and_Kolab_Server
>>> As you can see there is also an issue for this.  Have a look at it, for
>>> the latest status information about support within kolab....
>> Yes, I am able to add Samba support to Kolab myself, but many people
>> aren't.
>>
>> Having Samba support in Kolab by default could greatly increase Kolab's
>> userbase, I think.
> 
> I only wanted to tell that other people feel the same like you about samba 
> support.  They opened an issue about and provided code, that can be included 
> in kolab, but sofar that is about it.

Are there any technical arguments against it (besides additional 
maintenance burden)?

The changes are not intrusive, and Samba domain controller could be an 
option, not enabled by default (like Horde is now).

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Tomasz Chmielewski
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