[viff-devel] Python bindings for NaCl

[Adam Langley]

On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 1:41 AM, Martin Geisler <mg at daimi.au.dk> wrote:
> I think I would have used plain bytestrings here too and require that
> the application takes care of encoding the Unicode string in a
> suitable way (UTF-8 or whatever works for the application).
>
> The default encoding is still ASCII as far as I know, so it will
> probably not work anyway when the bindings try to convert the Unicode
> strings.

Makes sense. Will do.

> Okay. If you want to, you can get all the repository- and web-space
> you want on viff.dk. Or maybe you could put up the bindings on pypi?

Thanks for the offer. I'm not sure where it'll end up at the moment. I
often use code.google.com for these things.

> I think it would look great if NaCL and pyNaCL (if that is the right
> name?) would be put out there as small open source projects. Then we
> would actually have produced something concrete for others to use in
> the CACE project.

Agreed. You just have to persuade Dan to use source control and host
NaCl somewhere :)

> From the sample above it looks exactly like I imagined: simple,
> straight forward, and with minimum fuzz!

Thanks for the vote of confidence. I think NaCl gets paged into my
brain tomorrow. I'll see if I can get the shared library support done.


Cheers

AGL

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