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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: SMB !
From:       Lars Kneschke <lk () netuse ! de>
Date:       2000-02-29 12:32:13
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Nicolas Brodu wrote:
> 
> David Faure wrote:
> >
> > I think that in a method returning a char *,
> > if you do:
> > return myQString.local8Bit().data()
> > then there is something wrong (the QCString holding the
> > local-8-bit version of the string is deleted right after
> > the statement, but the char * is used long afterwards).
> >
> > Seen in smb.cc
> 
> Oops, OK. I assumed this didn't matter since the QStrings are
> stored as private variables. Except maybe I should also store
> the QCStrings.
> 
> > > Moreover, I cannot maintain the native code (no longer on a
> > > LAN, don't use SMB
> > > myself, do not have any Windows to test against, getting bored, etc.)
> > > People just doing "configure, make, make install" will have
> > > limited smb support while Samba-3.0 isn't out, which is better
> > > than nothing.
> > > And if anyone wants to spend time checking this, well, that's
> > > fine by me :-)
> >
> > Hmmm ok...
> > This means that most people will use the code that you don't maintain
> > though. I think that at some point, replacing libsmb with samba-tng
> > (in CVS) would be a good idea.
> 
> Do you realise that samba-tng is in fact Samba 3.0 cvs?
> Maybe I should clarify this: libsmb++ can offer the same
> high-level interface whether or not samba is present, but if
> it is found, it is used. libsmb++ is an abstraction layer that
> enable a C++ program to call methods named as the stdio
> open(), read(),... on SMB URLs instead, without even bothering with the SMB
> details. You could put samba-tng in addition to
> libsmb++, but not in replacement (or you'll have to rewrite
> this interface at some point anyway).
> And even if it was OK to mirror Samba cvs in KDE cvs, there is
> still the problem of concurrent Samba installations.
> 
> The way it is now sounds fine to me. When Samba-3.0 is out, the choice will be:
> You have Samba => full support.
> Don't have Samba => still have limited support.
I think it would be easier to have a link to the samba-tng-alpha
tar archives. The samba tng cvs version works one day and the
other not.

Cu

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