ldb: make ldb a top level library for Samba 4.0

Signed-off-by: Andrew Tridgell <tridge@samba.org>

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+/**
+
+\mainpage ldb
+
+\section Overview
+
+ldb is a LDAP-like embedded database. It is not at all LDAP standards
+compliant, so if you want a standards compliant database then please
+see the excellent <a href="http://www.openldap.org/">OpenLDAP</a>
+project.<p>
+
+What ldb does is provide a fast database with an LDAP-like API
+designed to be used within an application. In some ways it can be seen
+as a intermediate solution between key-value pair databases and a real
+LDAP database.<p>
+
+ldb is the database engine used in Samba4.
+
+\section Features
+
+The main features that separate ldb from other solutions are:
+ - Safe multi-reader, multi-writer, using byte range locking
+ - LDAP-like API
+ - fast operation
+ - choice of local tdb, local sqlite3 or remote LDAP backends
+ - integration with <a href="http://talloc.samba.org">talloc</a>
+ - schema-less operation, for trivial setup
+ - modules for extensions (such as schema support)
+ - easy setup of indexes and attribute properties
+ - ldbedit tool for database editing (reminiscent of 'vipw')
+ - ldif for import/export
+
+\section Documentation
+
+ldb has limited programmer and administrator documentation:
+ - a list of <a href="globals_func.html">functions</a>
+ - a list of <a href="examples.html">examples</a>
+ - a list of <a href="annotated.html">data structures</a>
+ - a list of <a href="globals_defs.html">constants</a>
+
+If you need more information than is presented in this document, you
+may wish to look at the source code, especially the source code in the
+<a href="http://samba.org/ftp/unpacked/samba4/source/lib/ldb/tools/">tools directory</a>. 
+
+ldb makes use of the LDAP Data Interchange Format (LDIF), which is
+documented in <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2849.txt">RFC
+2849</a>. 
+
+\section Support
+
+ldb does not currently have its own mailing list or bug tracking
+system. For now, please use the <a
+href="https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba-technical">samba-technical</a>
+mailing list, and the <a href="http://bugzilla.samba.org/">Samba
+bugzilla</a> bug tracking system.
+
+\section Download
+
+You can download the latest release either via rsync or anonymous
+svn. To fetch via svn use the following commands:
+
+\verbatim
+  svn co svn://svnanon.samba.org/samba/branches/SAMBA_4_0/source/lib/ldb ldb
+  svn co svn://svnanon.samba.org/samba/branches/SAMBA_4_0/source/lib/tdb tdb
+  svn co svn://svnanon.samba.org/samba/branches/SAMBA_4_0/source/lib/talloc talloc
+\endverbatim
+
+To fetch via rsync use these commands:
+
+\verbatim
+  rsync -Pavz samba.org::ftp/unpacked/samba4/source/lib/ldb .
+  rsync -Pavz samba.org::ftp/unpacked/samba4/source/lib/tdb .
+  rsync -Pavz samba.org::ftp/unpacked/samba4/source/lib/talloc .
+\endverbatim
+
+\section Credits
+
+ldb is another product of the prolific <a href="http://samba.org/~tridge/">Andrew Tridgell</a>.
+
+*/