Re: SFL C API Requirements???

[jsp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (John Pawling)]

Mark,

Thank you very much for your feedback. It will be a factor in our decision
regarding whether or not to develop the C API.  

To date, we have tested the SFL software on MS Windows 95, MS Windows NT,
Linux, Solaris 2.6 and SunOS 4.1.3.  We have developed the SFL to be
portable to 32-bit platforms.  Once we have completed the development of the
SFL software, we will then test it on other operating systems and make
enhancements, if required, to the baseline source code to ease porting to
those other systems.  The exact list of operating systems to be tested is to
be determined.  I am fairly certain that we will test the SFL on IBM AIX,
HP/UX 10.2 and SCO 5.0 since we already have hosts in our lab loaded with
those OSs.  I am not sure about Macintosh and Digital Unix.  We need to
discuss those ports with the Government.

We provide all source code for the SFL and SNACC (DER-enhanced) libraries.
If your development schedule does not permit you to wait for us to do the
porting, you could test the SFL source yourself.  We welcome any feedback
regarding enhancements to the SFL baseline to ease porting to other systems. 

Thanx again,
- John



At 10:23 AM 9/15/98 -0400, Mark Gavin wrote:
>[John Pawling wrote on 9/11/98 4:16 PM]
>
>>All,
>>
>>J.G. Van Dyke and Associates (VDA) is developing the S/MIME Freeware Library
>>(SFL) to implement the IETF S/MIME v3 CMS
>>and ESS I-Ds.  To date, we have developed the SFL to provide a C++ API.  In
>>the past, we have stated that we are going to also develop a C API in
>>addition to the C++ API.  We are now re-examining the requirement to develop
>>a C API.  Does anybody require a C API in addition to a C++ API to the SFL?
>>
>
>John,
> We do not need a C API.  All of our work is currently done in C++.  
>
>I am more interested in your working on cross platform support for 
>Macintosh, AIX, and Digital Unix.
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>Though, we are interested in Java; we do not currently have any projects 
>in development using Java, nor are any Java projects scheduled.
>
>Thank you.
>
>
>Mark Gavin
>Vice President
>Digital Applications, Inc.
>215 East Providence Road
>Aldan, PA, USA 19018-4129
>(610) 284-4006
>mgavin@xxxxxxxxxx
>http://www.DigApp.com
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