1 Here are some ideas that might make it into later versions.
5 ? = not sure to included it
7 ? - Use the DBUS protocol instead of libassuan. Better asynchronous IO. More
8 language bindings. Better handling of large amounts of data. Might be
9 better to hack libassuan though since DBUS is a binary protocol.
11 ? - Port to pthreads. Supports SMP and is alot faster. I tried this but was
12 having problems with locking and portability (FreeBSD).
14 ? - Use libgpgme to encrypt the data file. This will let pwmd use a secret
17 ? - Use gpg-agent for password retrieval.
19 ? - Make a standard that applications should follow when accessing or storing
20 the XML elements. This way two clients (say, one for console and another
21 for GUI) that require the same data (mail client) could use the same
22 element paths and not duplicate each others data.
24 For example, a POP3 client would require a hostname, username, password
25 and optional port along with an ssl request (fingerprint, certificate),
26 etc. The root element of the service might have an attribute
27 "service=pop3" along with "default=1" or "active=1" (if you have more than
28 one POP3 account) so all the client needs to get the pop3 server info is
29 the type of service ("pop3" here). The client would then loop through the
30 LIST command output and search for the required service attribute. Using
31 the XPATH command would be faster (especially over remote connections) but
32 it won't resolve "target" attributes and the output is raw XML which
33 doesn't have TAB delimited elements.