KDE and smartcard support

Andreas Aardal Hanssen ahanssen at trolltech.com
Wed May 23 07:30:02 BST 2007


On Wednesday 23 May 2007 03:49, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> 		STEP 2: provide a means to switch implementations
> this could be as simple as a "backend" class that is optionally compiled in
> if, say, QCA is available. add a "null" backend so if there is no smartcard
> capable API available at build time, then at least the library "works" even
> if it just returns failures. the backends could even be made to be loaded
> at runtime, but that seems overkill to me. conditional compilation should
> probably be enough.

Nod, I agree with you, Aaron.

As for QSslSocket's part in all of this, if the incompatibility with QCA is at
the certificate and key management level, I'm sure we can find some common 
ground.

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Andreas Aardal Hanssen / bibr - andreas . hanssen @ trolltech.com




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