external_acl merged into HEAD and 2.5

As promised, external_acl has been merged into HEAD and 2.5, together
with the known GPL helpers (helpers only in only HEAD, see below).

Including external_acl helpers reopen the issue on where to have
helpers. In lack of a better place I added the external_acl helpers
as helpers/external_acl.

This reopens the question on where we should have helpers. In
hindsight I think the move to have auth helpers deep down in the
source tree was a very bad move. This hides the helpers from the
users.

May I propose that we move the auth helper up into the newly created
helpers directory

helpers/basic Basic authentication helpers
helpers/ntlm NTLM authentication helpers
helpers/external_acl external_acl helpers

This will make the co-distributed helpers more available to the people
who need them, and makes a more natural place where to slot in third
party helpers in the distribution.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Sun Jun 23 2002 - 15:45:09 MDT