Has anyone considered porting MUSCLE PC/SC-lite to Windows?
Shouldn't be too much work linking it into DLL(s) and care for
loose ends.
I know it may look obscure, but there are advantages:
* Multi-platform solution ("Unix"/Linux/Mac/Win32)
* Open GPL'd source.
* Fun.
* Small binaries.
* Doesn't use/allocate resources until activated.
* Doesn't keep the card powered on when no application runs. (Thus
using the reader's emergency power down as standard procedure when
the user removes the card.)
* Reader drivers may be written in user space, thus not requiring
a low-level guru for the task.
* Drivers often portable between the supported platforms.
Is there any interesting disadvantages I might overlooked, except
the obvius fact that there already exists a Windows PC/SC?
Thanks.
Morten Norman
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