Re: [Nettle-users] DeviceFS support for !Nettle

[James P. <ji...@go...>]

Replying to the Reply-To address resulted in a user not known bounce, 
so I've replied here.

Alex Macfarlane Smith wrote:

> On 01/04/2010 22:31, James Peacock wrote:
>>
>> Is there anyone still maintaining Nettle? If so would something as
>> prototyped above be a suitable addition? I also have a few questions
>> regarding how newlines are meant to work and what the plans were for
>> the beginnings of SSH support in the code.
>>
> 
> Might be more useful to provide a patch rather than a zip of all the
> source - harder to see what changes have been made :)

Yes I know. I wasn't formally submitting anything, I was more trying
to gauge interest. The changes themselves are fairly minimal, and
there are still things to do.

I'll do a diff over the next few days, time allowing.

> Not sure about using DeviceFS - wonder whether it might be better to use
> the serial blockdrivers instead, although not sure how well they fit
> into a C application.

I'm sure block drivers could be made to work and I guess would be
better for some people with dual serial cards etc., though personally
I'd prefer to use DeviceFS. I think it is a more flexible interface,
and as part of the OS is, perhaps, more future proof.

Also what I've done can be used to talk and/or listen to any suitable
DeviceFS device as long as it can open at least one of the Tx or Rx
streams.

SSH is something I'm interested in as I use it a lot and there is no
comprehensive solution for RISC OS at present. Not sure whether I
would have time to do this.

James