* Andreas Jellinghaus (aj@dungeon.inka.de) wrote: > Hi everyone, > > belgium releases the source code, a very nice chrismas present. > > the opensc developers already had it for a few days and we could > take a look. we will merge most of the changes soon, but we are > considering a different approach on some issues. > > the biggest issue is: belpic includes gtk code so it can do a gui > popup to ask for a pin. I'm not sure it is nice to link libopensc > with gtk. I'd rather prefer a mechanism where the application > registeres a callback function. maybe also make it possible to > specify a gui plugin in the config file that will be loaded > automaticaly and used as default callback. Well the pinentry program from the GnuPG folks seems to be their solution to this problem. Maybe it could be used to solve this one? > so a full featured integration of all changes into opensc will take some > time. if you want to package belpic now with debian: I'm fine with > it. in half a year or so opensc can obsolete it, but till > then it might be the fastest solution to get belpic support > for everyone ready into debian. > > a few comments: > package name should be belpic to be consistent. > (also because "eid" is generic, and other countries > have eid software, too). > > license is LGPL (with a few files under bsd). -- Eric Dorland <eric.dorland@mail.mcgill.ca> ICQ: #61138586, Jabber: hooty@jabber.com 1024D/16D970C6 097C 4861 9934 27A0 8E1C 2B0A 61E9 8ECF 16D9 70C6 -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS d- s++: a-- C+++ UL+++ P++ L++ E++ W++ N+ o K- w+ O? M++ V-- PS+ PE Y+ PGP++ t++ 5++ X+ R tv++ b+++ DI+ D+ G e h! r- y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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