On 11/26/2011 2:45 AM, Ludovic Rousseau wrote: > Hello Douglas and Anders, > > 2011/11/25 Douglas E. Engert<deeng...@anl.gov>: >> On 11/24/2011 4:02 AM, Anders Rundgren wrote: >>> Hi Ludovic, >>> >>> You are a true smart card middleware expert. >>> I'm not and my customers are even less of that. >>> They just want to plug in and go. >>> >>> As it appears the smart card community/industry have created >>> uniquely complex middleware for reasons unclear to me. >> >> I never could understand it, either. > > What do you think is complex in the PC/SC API? > What would you like to change? > > Maybe I can propose something missing to the PC/SC workgroup. But it > may takes years to be accepted :-)
Its not PC/SC that makes it complex, PC/SC is one of the better parts. Its the rest of the smart card industry that has for years tried to provide single vendor proprietary solutions, that would only run on a limited number of systems. But that is water over the dam. > > Regards, > -- Douglas E. Engert <deeng...@anl.gov> Argonne National Laboratory 9700 South Cass Avenue Argonne, Illinois 60439 (630) 252-5444 _______________________________________________ opensc-devel mailing list opensc-devel@lists.opensc-project.org http://www.opensc-project.org/mailman/listinfo/opensc-devel
