While we only used SourceForge so far, we will opt for github here. We will
set up a project on monday.

Project maintainance will be done by two guys in our company, Waldemar and
me. Anyone interested is invited to contribute.


On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Ludovic Rousseau <[email protected]
> 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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