I hope you will be satisfied with what you will get...

Indeed, it has taken some time to get here. This weekend i will separate
the code from our repository and rack my brain what to do with the
dependencies into our runtime.


On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Frank Marien <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> 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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