> On 17 Sep 2020, at 13:01, Jonathan van Alteren <jvalte...@objectguild.com> > wrote: > > Hi Torsten and anyone interested, > > I know this project probably isn't critical for you, but for me it represents > a nice opportunity to work on something visible in the broader community. > With the limited time I currently have available, that is.
Thanks for this jonathan. I appreciate it. > > I would love to hear your feedback on my comments. > > Cheers! > > Jonathan van Alteren > > Founding Member | Object Guild B.V. > Sustainable Software for Purpose-Driven Organizations > > jvalte...@objectguild.com > On 8 Sep 2020, 17:10 +0200, Jonathan van Alteren <jvalte...@objectguild.com>, > wrote: > Hi Torsten, > > Thanks for your message, those are some good questions/comments. > 1. Looking at the frequency of the last commits on SmalltalkHub, I think I > can step in as maintainer for the moment. Please let me know if you think > something needs to be changed/added to the README to reflect that. > 2. Although I am fine with making it more accessible to the community, I > think it should not be integrated in the Cryptography repository. If I am > correct, the Cryptography packages are a standalone, native implementation of > ASN1 and several cryptography related libraries. Crypto-Nacl is a wrapper for > Libsodium which uses uFFI, and will therefore only support features that > Sodium offers. > > What are criteria for a repository to be placed under the pharo-contributions > organization? > 3. Thanks, I've updated the LICENSE file to add Tony and Hernán. > 4. I changed the name earlier, but decided to revert to the original name in > SmalltalkHub. If a name change is warranted, I think it should be > libsodium-pharo, since the original NaCl library has been superseded by > Sodium and other libsodium bindings follow a similar naming convention (see > https://github.com/search?q=libsodium&type=Repositories > <https://github.com/search?q=libsodium&type=Repositories>) > 5. Of course it would. At the moment, I only migrated the project from > SmalltalkHub, refreshed a small bit of code and enabled smalltalkCI with > GitHub Actions. Currently, you'd need to look at the tests for some examples. > > Any particular examples you would be interested in? Perhaps you can open an > issue with a request. > 6. It might already work on Windows, since the Nacl FFILibrary defines > 'libsodium.dll' as win32 module (library) name. However, I don't currently > run any Windows systems, so that would be a good opportunity for a > contribution. Is that something you can help with? > > Thanks again for the feedback. I'm interested to work on this to gain more > experience with maintaining an open source project, especially since this one > doesn't seem very demanding at the moment. > > Are you familiar with Pieter Hintjens work and ideas on OS software? I find > his C4 model (Collective Code Construction Contract > <https://rfc.zeromq.org/spec/42/>) to be very interesting and I'm open to > trying that out. > > See here for more context: > https://hintjens.gitbooks.io/social-architecture/content/chapter4.html > <https://hintjens.gitbooks.io/social-architecture/content/chapter4.html> > (The rest of the book is interesting as well.) > > > Kind regards, > > Jonathan van Alteren > > Founding Member | Object Guild B.V. > Sustainable Software for Purpose-Driven Organizations > > jvalte...@objectguild.com > On 31 Aug 2020, 17:37 +0200, Torsten Bergmann , wrote: > Hi Jonathan, > > nice, thanks for investing time and effort into this. Such utilities are > needed for serious applications. Some thoughts and questions: > > 1. What is the mid-term or long-term plan regarding collaboration? Will you > be able to step in as maintainer? > > 2. As it already seems to be authored by several people and contains > functionality of general interest it should be considered to move it to > a central community place like > https://github.com/pharo-contributions[https://github.com/pharo-contributions/Cryptography]/ > where several people from community have already > access. It would then be in alignment with > https://github.com/pharo-contributions/Cryptography[https://github.com/pharo-contributions/Cryptography] > too and maintenance of > contributions as well as releases could be done from different sides and more > centrally. > > You and anyone can then regulary fork from the community repo to an own > (customized) repo like https://github.com/objectguild/Crypto-Nacl > > I guess Esteban can add you as contributor to "pharo-contribution" > organization if you follow that path. > > 3. I guess LICENSE file need to be updated to give additionall credit to the > original authors or mention more general "Pharo community" > (currently it mentions Object Guild solely) > > 4. Can it be changed to use "NaCl" instead of "Nacl" which is more suitable > name for Sodium (a similar name fixing was done in the Cuis port too) > > 5. Would it be possible to add some expressions/samples or docu in the > README for end users on how to use it. This would give people a quick guide > on how to do things. > > 6. Any plans for making it work on Windows too? > > Thanks > Torsten > > > Gesendet: Montag, 31. August 2020 um 09:52 Uhr > Von: "Jonathan van Alteren" <jvalte...@objectguild.com> > An: "Any question about pharo is welcome" <pharo-users@lists.pharo.org> > Betreff: [Pharo-users] ported and refreshed Crypto-Nacl to GitHub (from StH) > > Hi all, > > I wanted to let you know that I ported the Crypto-Nacl library from > SmalltalkHub to GitHub here: > https://github.com/objectguild/Crypto-Nacl[https://github.com/objectguild/Crypto-Nacl] > > The original author is Tony Garnock-Jones, with contributions from Hernán > Morales Durand. See the README for more details. > > Libsodium has evolved a lot over time, which means that there is plenty of > additional functionality that can be unlocked through this library. I don't > have a need for it at the moment, but that might change in the near future. > My interest is in using the cryptographic features to enhance security of > business applications. > > Oh, and thanks to the Buenos Aires Smalltalk team > (https://github.com/ba-st/[https://github.com/ba-st/]) for inspiration on > using GitHub Actions with smalltalkCI :-) > > > Cheers, > > Jonathan van Alteren > > Founding Member | Object Guild B.V. > Sustainable Software for Purpose-Driven Organizations > > jvalte...@objectguild.com > -------------------------------------------- Stéphane Ducasse http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr / http://www.pharo.org 03 59 35 87 52 Assistant: Aurore Dalle FAX 03 59 57 78 50 TEL 03 59 35 86 16 S. Ducasse - Inria 40, avenue Halley, Parc Scientifique de la Haute Borne, Bât.A, Park Plaza Villeneuve d'Ascq 59650 France
