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Re: dropping gss_name_to_any ?

Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams@sun.com> Tue, 17 November 2009 17:05 UTC

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Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:46:32 -0600
From: Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams@sun.com>
To: Leif Johansson <leifj@mnt.se>
Subject: Re: dropping gss_name_to_any ?
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On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 03:21:39PM +0100, Leif Johansson wrote:
> > I've never been comfortable with this API - it feels difficult to specify 
> > property. I'd be in favor of dropping it.
> 
> I'd like to confirm that we have consensus on dropping gss_name_to_any
> (or consensus that I misunderstood that thread)

I'm for dropping it, but Luke seems to think it's useful, and he did
implement it, including a plug-in interface.  Luke?

Nico
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