Hi, On Samstag, 14. Februar 2009, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > On 2/14/09, Martin Preuss <[email protected]> wrote: > > Difficult to work with us? (asking as the maintainer of the cyberjack > > driver for Linux)?? > > I found this [1], while I tried to make source tarball be more > suitable as standalone installable module (without rpm or deb). [...]
I remember that discussion all to well... [...] > Can you please write the reasons why did you chose to access the > reader directly and not use PC/SC within utilities? [...] The base of the driver was created when PC/SC wasn't that popular under Linux, so the developers at that time created a driver for the interface which was at that time widely used. The driver is basically a CTAPI driver. We have a wrapper which makes it work as an IFD driver as well (like the old Open Source Towitoko driver did), but internally it is a CTAPI driver. Later, as PC/SC got more popular, the IFD wrapper was added, but still the internals of the driver remained CTAPI. The tools also come from a time where CTAPI was most popular among the customers. Many of the customers who use the cyberjack still use applications which only work with CTAPI drivers (even Moneyplex is CTAPI-only) so currently there is no immediate need to rewrite either the tools or the driver. Of course, that might change when Moneyplex and the medical applications switch to PC/SC instead of CTAPI. Regards Martin -- "Things are only impossible until they're not" Martin Preuss - http://www2.aquamaniac.de/ AqBanking - http://www.aqbanking.de/ LibChipcard - http://www.libchipcard.de/ _______________________________________________ opensc-devel mailing list [email protected] http://www.opensc-project.org/mailman/listinfo/opensc-devel
