[csw-pkgsubmissions] (libfbopenssl)

Dagobert Michelsen dam at opencsw.org
Thu Feb 18 11:08:37 CET 2010


Hi Phil,

Am 17.02.2010 um 18:46 schrieb Philip Brown:

> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 6:59 AM, Dagobert Michelsen  
> <dam at opencsw.org> wrote:
>> ...
>> Could you please release this anyway regardless of the curl
>> dependency?
>>
>
> Hmm.. .in general principle, sure.
> however.... I think you need to unify the name more. or sort out
> discrepancy between description and name.
>
> "libfbopenssl" ?? sounds like some kind of odd visual(framebuffer)
> openssl library ;-)

 From readme.txt:

> fbopenssl is a library containing extensions to OpenSSL, including  
> support for:
>
> - GSS-API (RFC 2743)
> - SPNEGO (RFC 2478)

And for "fb" I would say:

> Author: Frank Balluffi

> and nowhere is there "spnego" in the name. yet the description  
> merely says,
>
> "SPNEGO API"

I could change it to "Extensions to OpenSSL including support for GSS- 
API and SPNEGO"


Best regards

   -- Dago


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