AttributeInMetadata

[Cantor, Scott]

On 11/20/12 7:02 PM, "Peter Schober" <peter.schober at univie.ac.at> wrote:

>* Cantor, Scott <cantor.2 at osu.edu> [2012-11-20 20:17]:
>>The problem is that I'd have to change the plugin type to avoid
>> conflicting with it. I'm not unwilling, but my suspicion was that would
>> create more confusion than help, since using the extension with any
>> version amounts to dropping one jar in lib and re-running install.
>
>Plus adding the SWITCH-namespaced xml ns declarations to the attribute
>filter, yes.

Yes, that's true.

>Unless there are technical (or legal or whatever) barries preventing
>this I'd really like to see the IdP do that without additional steps
>involved by the deployer.

I wrote the original code, so the copyright on it is technically Ohio
State anyway, so, no, there's no issue doing it.

Originally there was no plan for a 2.4 release. So that made it entirely
academic. Then we fell behind, the summer shutdown occurred, Chad moved
on, and we had to revise the work plan  in light of how long it will take
to finish a major upgrade, and for various reasons I felt we needed to
look at doing a minor update for early next year. This wasn't one of the
reasons, but I don't have any particular objection to doing it.

>So maybe something can be worked out (would including it as-is work, even
>if someone followed the stepts to add it themselfs?).

No, I wouldn't be adding code with a foreign package name, because that
muddies who's maintaining it. If something changes in one or the other
code base for whatever reason, they can't be allowed to conflict.

-- Scott