Re: Adding unit and tests to NSS and PSM

2011-08-03 Thread Ian G
On 3/08/11 8:38 PM, Nelson B Bolyard wrote: When the framework was developed, and all that remained to be done was writing any tests that run in it, the framework developers quit. "You need a framework" is the 21st century version of that old epigram, "I've got a bridge to sell you..." :) S

Re: Adding unit and tests to NSS and PSM

2011-08-03 Thread Nelson B Bolyard
On 2011-08-03 02:22 PDT, Ludovic Hirlimann wrote: > I know, by reading various bug comments, that NSS as some machines > dedicated to testing somewhere. And from what I read It seems that these > tests suites are started manually. You have been misinformed. For NSS, there is a collection of mach

Using p11-kit standard registry for loadable PKCS#11 modules?

2011-08-03 Thread Stef Walter
For the last little while I've been working on p11-kit, and integrating it into various projects across the open source community. http://p11-glue.freedesktop.org/p11-kit.html One of the main issues it tries to solve, is that of a standard configuration/registry for PKCS#11 modules. This has seve

Adding unit and tests to NSS and PSM

2011-08-03 Thread Ludovic Hirlimann
Hi, I've been following NSS and PSM bugs over the last few years. Once in a while an external contributors come up with a patch - and the review process is slow mainly because the module owners fear that accepting the patch might trigger regressions. This is bad for the module and for the contribu

Re: Using p11-kit standard registry for loadable PKCS#11 modules?

2011-08-03 Thread Stef Walter
On 08/02/2011 09:51 PM, Robert Relyea wrote: > NSS has been facing these issues for a while now. After trying to get > something going in the PKCS #11 working group we finally implemented > this internally: Yes, certainly. I evaluated that design while researching this topic. It's certainly a nice