Shibboleth Developers

[Dan McLaughlin <>]

Rather then deactivate it, I'd rather see you just add a comment in
the metadata stating that it shouldn't be used for production and with
a link to the documentation with best practices for managing the SP
metadata.

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Thanks,

Dan McLaughlin
Technology Consortium, LLC

http://www.tech-consortium.com

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On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Peter Schober
<>
 wrote:
> * Cantor, Scott E. 
> <>
>  [2011-04-20 14:39]:
>> The metadata generator is a tool to assist in the initial generation
>> of metadata.
>
> How about deactivating the metadata generator handler by default (or
> not including it in the default config) in future releases?
> (Though activating it in an extra step only to generate a metadata
> template /once/ will likely be equivalent to ripping the code out
> completely.)
> The metagen script could use some documentation (I planned writing a
> man page, as it is you need to read the source to find out what it
> does and where; I also though about proposing to follow Debian's lead
> and move the scripts to /usr/bin for RPM packages) but other than that
> it should nicely fill the generator's shoes?
> -peter
>