On 07/05/13 14:04, Ludovic Rousseau wrote:
> 2013/7/5 Michael Traut <[email protected]>:
>> We already have a platform independent native adapter to pcsc and pcsc-lite.
>> We developed this before smartcardio popped up and never switched because of
>> the limitations of smartcardio - it is used in our (closed-source) EAL
>> certified signature application.
>>
>> We'd like to donate this lib if anybody is interested...
>>
>> The runtime stack consists of
>>
>> - JNA runtime
>> - intarsys native memory model (as we dislike the JNA abstractions...). This
>> is already BSD licensed (via jPod on SourceForge)
>> - intarsys PCSC wrapper (including all SCARD features WE needed so far)
>> - intarsys Card abstraction. A small layer on top of PCSC, with some
>> features we found very useful in the years.
>>
>> The pro is without doubt that we use this for years, fixed small "bugs" with
>> every version of win*, 32 and 64 bit, Mac and Unix derivates, for every card
>> reader explicitly supported and poorly programmed by the provider... There
>> have been so many incompatibilities to work around we simply can't list...
>>
>> For some, the downside may be that we do NOT plug in smartcardio and have
>> different abstraction for terminal/card/connection. The "card" abstraction
>> (while not required, but really recommended) is quite strict and on the
>> exact opposite of smartcardio. Every card terminal and every card connection
>> comes with its own context...
>>
>> If appropriate, make some suggestions on where to host the lib....
> Great!
>
> I would propose to host the lib at github.com, unless your are more
> familiar with another system.
>
> Or if the library has a really low activity we could host it in the
> contrib/ directory of the pcsc-lite project at
> http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pcsclite/trunk/contrib/
>
> The real question is: do you propose yourself as the project 
> leader/maintainer?
>
> Bye,
>
> --
>  Dr. Ludovic Rousseau
>
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Second that "Great!" from Dr Ludovic. I've been looking into
implementing this and I figure it has taken a lot of work to get and
keep working right. It would save others a lot of work if you would
share that. de.intersys.opensource['karma']++ :-)

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