[Vm-dev] Re: [squeak-dev] Crypto plugins for ubuntu 32-bits

Robert Withers robert.w.withers at gmail.com
Sun Dec 6 01:51:30 UTC 2015



On 12/05/2015 08:13 PM, David T. Lewis wrote:
>   
> On Sat, Dec 05, 2015 at 07:21:47PM -0500, David T. Lewis wrote:
>>   
>> DSAPlugin class is in VMMaker, and also in the Cryptography repository. The
>> one in VMMaker seems to compile cleanly, but the one in Cryptography does not
>> (at least not in my trunk VMM / cmake / 64-bit linux environment). I did not
>> look closely for the reason, but I want to ask first if the DSAPlugin
>> belongs in VMMaker, or should it live in in the Cryptography repository?
>>
> I need to correct what I said here. The DSAPlugin in Cryptography *does*
> compile cleanly, I'm not sure what my earlier problem was. I also did a
> closer comparison of the DSAPlugin in VMMaker versus the one one Cryptography,
> and they are the same except for method time stamps and a trivial formatting
> difference.
>
> Therefore the open issues I see for DSAPlugin are:
>
> 1) Which repository/package should DSAPlugin be in?
>
> 2) Why isn't the cmake build working for generating the plugin?
>
> Question 1) should be at the discretion of the authors/maintainers of the
> Cryptography plugins, and 2) is probably just a glitch in the build configuration.
>
> FWIW, my personal preference would be to use the plugins directly from the
> Cryptography repository, deleting the DSAPlugin in VMMaker (trunk + oscog),
> and updating configuration maps or build scripts to point to Cryptography.

This is super news, Dave. Thank you for pulling these plugins into the vm.

I share your opinion that the DSAPlugin stay in the Cryptography 
repository. Crypto plugins can be kept together. Since this is no change 
to the Cryptography setup, I would expect everyone to be happy with this 
proposal; I added the Cryptography team list for their input.

Are you saying the CryptographyPlugins package could stay in the 
Cryptography repository and the Cryptography package and the 
CryptographyPlugins package would be automatically pulled into a VMMaker 
image? That's sweet. If Cryptography were pulled into the base image, 
there would be no need to load it, just the Plugins package. That is 
probably a separate discussion, regarding the base image.

I have not used CMake, I don't believe - perhaps Pharo uses it - so I 
can't add to this. It may be that someone on the Cryptography list knows 
more about this.

Another step would be writing a Reed Solomon plugin and getting it 
included, as well. This pertains to my interest in getting the whole 
SecureSession pipeline pluginized, once I get the RS encoder working.

Robert

>
> Dave
>



More information about the Vm-dev mailing list