Hi all, I am still following the bacula-devel list with interest, although not currently contributing -- I will get back to that when I have adapted my IDE project to analyzing C source code etc.
In looking at possible alternatives to OpenSSL etc for cryptography, can I suggest looking at cryptlib ? See: www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/cryptlib or just google for 'cryptlib'. The interface descriptions and general documentation looks excellent to me, and the licensing claims to be compatible with the GPL, in the form of the Sleepycat License, quoted on the site. As long as the sourcecode remains freely available, it would seem to be worth looking at. Regarding the difficulties in using the OpenChange libraries, it should be possible to define a wire-protocol (bytes on-the-wire) such that both Bacula and a separate process and executable, linked with the OpenChange libraries, can communicate and cooperate in processing MAPI data. At least, that is the way that I would proceed. Call the Backup-MAPI process BMAPI ... As long as Bacula is not dependent on BMAPI, i.e. it can be built and used independently of its existence, and vice-versa such that BMAPI could be used with something other than Bacula, then the licensing problems can be overcome. BMAPI has to be a separate project (or part of OpenChange), for licensing reasons, but defining a BMAPI protocol that Bacula can talk to, and adapting Bacula to access the BMAPI protocol is feasible. It is doable, but as Kern says, needlessly difficult. By the way, I was the party present at LinuxConf at Cambridge ... Cheers, Howard Thomson -- "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." -- Albert Einstein ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
