2009/10/2 Martin Paljak <mar...@paljak.pri.ee>: > Bonjour, > > On 02.10.2009, at 13:45, Ludovic Rousseau wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> 2009/10/2 Martin Paljak <mar...@paljak.pri.ee>: >>> >>> Maybe we should try >>> working with apple to get libopensc and the tokend to be included in OSX? >>> http://smartcardservices.macosforge.org/ leaves me the impression that >>> maybe, just maybe, apple is also interested in working *with* the open >>> source community and not just publish the source they use and hope that >>> somebody fixes the bugs they introduce? Given the fact that OpenSC >>> supports >>> many European eID cards there is a good reason why to treat OpenSC.tokend >>> on >>> a par with PIV/CAC tokend-s, except unlike PIV is not of interest to the >>> US >>> federal buyers. >> >> I am one of the team members [1] of the SmartCardServices project on >> MacOSForge.org > > Seen that, but it does not state your relation to it. Are you on the payroll > of Apple in some ways and responsible for pcsc-lite/ccid stack or as an > external maintainer?
I am not on Apple payroll. Just an external maintainer with an interest in a working PC/SC layer on Mac OS X. >> Once "we" have decided if we want to go this way we should ask Shawn >> Geddis (from Apple and also member of the SmartCardServices project) >> what he thinks about the idea. > > I've touched the topic in a private mailing but never got a reply. Shawn is sometimes _very_ slow to answer. > It would anyway cover either only static OpenSC.tokend or maybe > libopensc+OpenSC.tokend. But until that happens, what, why and how should we > put into our own installer? > The reason for a custom OpenSSL was apparently DSO support, which is built > into OpenSSL 0.9.8 on Snow Leopard => we have the option of dropping > OpenSSL, IMHO. The idea to put (part of) OpenSC on the SmartCardServices project is to have it included in a future version of Mac OS X. So no installer is needed, it is installed with the operating system. > What do you think should be put into "SCB" (Maybe instead "OpenSC installer > for OS X" ?)? > > On one hand, it could be as slim and clean as possible. On the other hand it > could be a feature-rich package of ready to use applications bundled into > it. > > For a OS X installer I would hope to see some end-user friendly stuff in it, > meaning things with a GUI or things that patch only system components (like > PKCS#11 and Tokend) for GUI applications. For a "way to install all the nice > pieces of unix software if you're a unix guy" I would actually prefer to > have a fink/macports solution. I think SmartCardServices is not the right place for a feature rich package. We should continue to host such a package on opensc.org Regards, -- Dr. Ludovic Rousseau _______________________________________________ opensc-devel mailing list opensc-devel@lists.opensc-project.org http://www.opensc-project.org/mailman/listinfo/opensc-devel
