Hi Juan, sorry for the late reply.
On Monday 13 August 2007 09:05:14 Juan Carlos Borrás wrote > As some of you may know there is a magical way of using the WBE > Infinity USB Unlimited (wbeiuu for short) card reader/smart card > programmer that does not use the current "stand by while work > progresses" OpenCT wbeiuu driver that I started developing (and failed > miserably) a while ago. The magic is to use the well-tried > smartmouse-phoenix driver over the linux device driver of the wbeiuu. so I couldn't help better with your development. :( > There are obvious advantages to do so the first one being that is > works, the second one being a devoted developer (Alain Degreffe) and > I'll stop here though one could go on and on. > > Now the question is, I think, whether to ditch the native wbeiuu > driver from the OpenCT repository or not. Doing the former will remove > confusion to any user attempting to use the wbeiuu. On the other hand > a native OpenCT driver should in theory be platform independent. That > is, it should also work on MacOS, BSDs and other boxes which I think > is an important issue to consider. yes. but remember we don't support mac os X so far with openct, as mac os X has no select() able file descriptors for usb devices. they only have blocking library functions. and for bsd: there are very few people using openct on bsd. maybe we get one post in 3-4 months on our mailing lists? > Neither my involvement nor my commitment with the native driver will > change from the one I have showed in the recent months. Therefore it > is up to the "souls in charge" of the OpenCT/OpenSC project to ditch > it or not. Decission which I will abide to. If anyone wants to continue developing it that would be great. otherwise we could a) remove it completely from source b) keep it in svn but not include it in config file and make file etc. c) like c but keep the necessary changes as comments. with b or ca later someone could easily pick up from the latest status,. no idea what the best thing to do here is. I'm fine with either option. Regards, Andreas _______________________________________________ opensc-devel mailing list [email protected] http://www.opensc-project.org/mailman/listinfo/opensc-devel
