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Re: dropping gss_name_to_any ?

Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams@sun.com> Wed, 18 November 2009 00:09 UTC

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Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:57:25 -0600
From: Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams@sun.com>
To: Love Hörnquist Åstrand <lha@kth.se>
Subject: Re: dropping gss_name_to_any ?
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On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 02:04:04PM -0800, Love Hörnquist Åstrand wrote:
> I think that when we get a real use for it we can add it all back.
> 
> Pushing out random objects is sane.

Insane, yes.  My original use had been for an OS-specific view of things
like the PAC.  But as long as there's few consumers or the parsing code
can live in a library, then there's no need for this.  I.e., there's no
need for this -- it was a mistake on my part to include it in the first
place.

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