Re: [Q] support for the OS X keychain

Thank you for your suggestions, Stephen! Here's a new version of the patch. On Sat 22 Dec 2007 21:17, "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: > Which versions have you tested with? Since it's a module, I suppose > it can be built to be used with *any* XEmacs supporting modules, > including 21.4? (Vin alert!) I've tested the module with a recent 21.5 XEmacs with Mule support. The keychain code relies on TO_EXTERNAL_FORMAT to convert a Lisp string to malloced UTF-8 encoded C string (Apple's Carbon API wants strings encoded as UTF-8). The lisp.h of 21.4 does not seem to have this macro.

I couldn't figure out how to convert the string with macros of 21.4 yet --- maybe one of the 21.4 developers could give me some advice?

[...] > (2) `keychain-add' *should* be given an interactive interface that > calls `read-password' for the password. While `read-password' is only > "semi-secure" (as its documentation says), it does limit the risk > quite a bit. And if you use `read-password', then improvements to it > will automatically be used in the future. Good point. Seems to work with the new patch. However, one issue remains: The `passwd' library must be loaded before calling `keychain-add' for the first time. I'm wondering whether I have to "autoload" or "require" the `passwd' library in some sense. I found a C function called `do_autoload' but I couldn't figure out what this function does. What do the XEmacs developers suggest in this case?