Re: New Emacs facilities from Gnus

[Stefan Monnier]

>> * smime-ldap.el:
>> 
>> ;;; smime-ldap.el --- client interface to LDAP for Emacs
>> ;; Author: Oscar Figueiredo <address@hidden>
>> 
>> How does this differ from, or relate to, lisp/net/ldap.el?

> Two things.

> 1) It implements Emacs 22's version of ldap-search and
>    ldap-search-internal from ldap.el for use of Gnus in Emacs 21.3. The
>    changes are made to achieve compatibility with OpenLDAP v2 and to
>    make it possible to retrieve LDAP attributes that are tagged ie
>    ";binary".

> 2) It adds a compatibility layer for Xemacs because the ldap-search in
>    Emacs and in Xemacs returns its results differently.

So it's a compatibility package?


        Stefan