Re: [Sshkeychain-developers] Overhaul

[Tim C. <ti...@ch...>]

On 30 Oct 2009, at 2:19 pm, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 2:52 AM, Bart Matthaei <ba...@dr...>  
> wrote:
>> I'd like to establish a new set of features for the project. I think
>> it would be best to focus on working together with mac's
>> ssh-agent support, adding some security features (like clean agent on
>> sleep, screensaver, etc.), and further improving
>> tunnel support.
>
> My two cents are that I, and I expect a lot of other folks, do not
> need the tunnel support.  I just use SSHKeychain to authenticate my
> regular old SSH logins.  So tunnel stuff is great, but hopefully it
> can be prevented from getting in my way :)

I (and many of my users) do use the tunnel support.

> Also, I have Mac OS 10.4, and I don't have much experience with
> Objective C, but I'd like to help out.  If you can toss some "easy"
> tasks my way, that'd be great.

Objective C is pretty easy and fast to pick up.  It's a much simpler  
object-orientation of C than C++ is.  The syntax looks a bit weird to  
start with - it sort of looks like the bastard offspring of C,  
SmallTalk and Tcl - but I actually quite like it.

Tim


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