> Yes and no. It's not bad to have low-level tools which are useless > for end users. Those tools are very useful for developers. > > [...] > > Agree that end-user GUIs need more sophisticated functionality than > may be offered by most or even all existing OpenSC tools. But that > does not mean that current OpenSC tools should be modified or > deprecated, only that either new tools in OpenSC are needed, or that > GUIs have to implement more glue. > > To some degree the things that are needed may depend on the GUI > environment, so it may not be feasible to keep one single > implementation for all GUIs inside OpenSC. > I agree entirely with this!
Simply from a user perspective, but with the "developer" hat on, I appreciate low-level tools being used even though for the mundane tasks there are GUI tools. One thing, which I'd like added to the pkcs15-tool is raw data output, which, as far as I know, can't be done (it is "encoded", which is of no use to me whatsoever if I would like to pipe the output to something else - even if I try to decode it), so a GUI with an added functionality while keeping the existing framework is good, I think! _______________________________________________ opensc-devel mailing list opensc-devel@lists.opensc-project.org http://www.opensc-project.org/mailman/listinfo/opensc-devel
