Winscard support (for smart cards)

Hi,
We have noticed that wine doesn't have the winscard dll responsible for the
support of smart cards under windows. For the need of one of our projects, we
are currently developing this dll for wine under Linux based on the pcsc-lite
library. Once done, we'll share it with the community. However, we would like
to known the reason behind the lack of winscard support. Is it simply because
no one needed it before or maybe there is an issue with the pcsc-lite license?
Thanks in advance for your information.

Cheers,
Mounir IDRASSI
IDRIX
http://www.idrix.fr

[Saulius Krasuckas]

* On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 mounir.idrassi(a)idrix.Fr wrote:
> For the need of one of our projects, we are currently developing this 
> dll for wine under Linux based on the pcsc-lite library.

Cool.
> Once done, we'll share it with the community.

Nice, but IMHO it would be best for the community if you will start doing 
this immediatelly, not once done.  Otherwise you would probably step in a 
shoes of Transgaming' or Codeweavers' guys, patches from which src trees 
will have a somwhat hard way into Wine tree.
> However, we would like to known the reason behind the lack of winscard 
> support. Is it simply because no one needed it before or maybe there is 
> an issue with the pcsc-lite license? Thanks in advance for your 
> information.

IANAL, but if it's of BSD license, then that isn't an issue, AFAIK.

Saulius Krasuckas <saulius2(a)ar.fi.lt> wrote:
> IMHO it would be best for the community if you will start doing
> this immediatelly, not once done.

Unfortunately, we are well advanced and we can't do it that way due to other
constraints in the project.
Another bad point is that, since we are not really experts in autoconf and
libtool scripts, we started from a pre-configured source tree and adapted the
files of the cryptdll library (the simplest one). So we will definitely need
the help of the community to integrate our source seamlessly into the wine
source tree.

Mounir IDRASSI
IDRIX - Cryptography And IT Security Experts
http://www.idrix.fr

[Vijay Kiran Kamuju]

Hi,

If there is a sample implementation or some kinda initial source code.
(Just send a initial code)
We can try to help you in integrating the code into wine tree.
By progressing step  by step.

Thanks,
VJ

On 4/25/07, mounir.idrassi(a)idrix.fr <mounir.idrassi(a)idrix.fr> wrote:
> Saulius Krasuckas <saulius2(a)ar.fi.lt> wrote:
> > IMHO it would be best for the community if you will start doing
> > this immediatelly, not once done.
>
> Unfortunately, we are well advanced and we can't do it that way due to other
> constraints in the project.
> Another bad point is that, since we are not really experts in autoconf and
> libtool scripts, we started from a pre-configured source tree and adapted the
> files of the cryptdll library (the simplest one). So we will definitely need
> the help of the community to integrate our source seamlessly into the wine
> source tree.
>
> Mounir IDRASSI
> IDRIX - Cryptography And IT Security Experts
> http://www.idrix.fr

[Stefan Dösinger]

Am Mittwoch 25 April 2007 18:48 schrieb mounir.idrassi(a)idrix.fr:
> Hi,
> We have noticed that wine doesn't have the winscard dll responsible for the
> support of smart cards under windows. For the need of one of our projects,
> we are currently developing this dll for wine under Linux based on the
> pcsc-lite library. Once done, we'll share it with the community. However,
> we would like to known the reason behind the lack of winscard support. Is
> it simply because no one needed it before or maybe there is an issue with
> the pcsc-lite license? Thanks in advance for your information.
> I think it is because no one needed it before.

As Saulius Krasuckas said, it would be better if you sent patches as you 
develop the library, mainly because smaller patches are easier to review. It 
is much easier to get a new DLL in function by function instead of the whole 
thing at one. Of course you can write it, then send it in in smaller pieces, 
but splitting it up is extra work, and you don't have the change of getting 
feedback while you develop it(Ok, almost no one here knows about pcsc, so 
don't expect much feedback anyway).