un-NIH-ing accounts?

[Mark]

On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 9:43 PM, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org> wrote:

> hi all :)
>
> thanks to a bit of internet sillyness on the blog planets, i became aware
> of
> this:
>
>         http://code.google.com/p/accounts-sso
>
> is anyone familiar with it at all? looked into it as a possible solution
> for
> our Accounts needs, etc?
>
> seems it is used in Ubuntu these days, actively developed and it has Qt
> libraries ... was originally done for maemo/meego, so it is tested as well.
>
> a downside is that the API in the libraries is pretty low quality and some
> of
> the classes are poorly documented (or even not at all).
>
> however, i think it is worth us looking at if only because it would mean
> we'd
> avoid fragmenting the accounts/sso space even more while potentially
> saving us
> a lot of effort.
>
> it almost certainly does not have all the design concepts we talked about
> at
> akademy. so we'll want to come up with a pro's and con's list .. though
> that
> means someone looking into it.
>
> anyone up to building and trying out the various packages to see how well
> it
> does/doesn't work out of the box on a desktop system?
>
> --
> Aaron J. Seigo
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This page has a bit more info then the google code link (and the packages):
http://gitorious.org/accounts-sso/pages/Home
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