Just so you know, a centralized VCS like svn or cvs can do the same thing.
How does one commit to a local repository using SVN? Sure I suppose if the LDAP spontaneously configures itself and
populates itself with data that is just great. I was talking about configuring LDAP, deploying LDAP, and populating it with data. That sucks. Ever type LDIF by hand? Fun.
That's not very awesome to me. You can do the same thing with AUR's RPC... without the fugly, esoteric LDAP syntax and without prior knowledge of how the directory is structured:
curl "http://aur.archlinux.org/rpc.php?type=info&arg=$pkgname"
I don't think it would be worth the effort of the programmer to convert the AUR to use LDAP as a storage backend to get features we already have. However, using LDAP for a centralized authentication/authorization server for the sites in the archlinux.org domain? That would be sweet.
Personally I think that LDAP is much easier to set up and populate than SQL. Also my LDAP query does not require an additional layer to translate HTTP -> SQL -> JSON. Though I suppose since this infrastructure is already in place this point is rather moot. --Kaiting. -- Kiwis and Limes: http://kaitocracy.blogspot.com/