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[Tomasz Wolniewicz <twoln AT umk.pl>]

Hi,

   What we have now is what I see as a transition phase. You might not 
be aware of is that geteduroam actually relies on CAT in the background 
- but only admin interface and a specific "device" which produces 
eap-config profiles. Also at the moment, native CAT Windows and Apple 
installers provide support for OpenRoaming, that is something yet to be 
added in geteduroam. OpenRoaming is not really visible in most 
federations - it requires turning it on on the federation level and then 
also on the institution level, but it is there if people want to 
experiment with it now.

My expectations for the future would be that the CAT development will 
focus on the background - admin interface, supporting tools and support 
for the eap-config profiles used by geteduroam. geteduroam will most 
likely take over as the installation tool. At the moment it would be 
impossible just to drop support for the current approach.

The native CAT approach could be a chosen way for some institutions as 
Windows, Apple and Limux installers are produced as ready to go - no 
institution selection is required in the app. As a local admin you can 
create deep links that go directly to the instillers and embed this in 
your own local instructions. Of course this is not possible for Android, 
which breaks the uniformity of all that.

The bash script for Linux is a long story. In fact the first installers 
were bash scripts calling some python additions, then we moved fully to 
python. Then using nmcli was pointed to us as a better alternative and 
the original bash script was rebuilt to use that. The geteduroam 
initiative was only gaining momentum at the time, so it was not obvious 
which way to go.

I hope this throws some light on what might be expected.

Tomasz



W dniu 26.04.2023 o 09:54, Lukas Wringer (via cat-users Mailing List) pisze:
> Hi,
>
> for a while now 'geteduroam' has been set as a successor for eduroam
> CAT on Android. While it had a rough start with Google API shenanigans
> it now finaly works as it should be - if you are at least on Android 12
> and use version 1.1.0 (older versions are still kinda broken)
>
> But geteduroam also exists for Windows, macOS, iOS/iPadOS ( and linux
> seems to be in active development and looks quite nice:
> https://github.com/geteduroam/linux-app )
>
> As I found out, you are also developing a new Linux script to replace
> the 'old' Python script.
>
> With this I just am courious - why are there two sets of Apps/Scripts
> devloped for the same purpose - to install eduroam wifi profiles from
> the CAT-Database?
>
> I know that on Windows we would loose the option for GEANTLink maybe
> and mass deployment could be a bit tricky to implement - but the other
> OSes?
>
> Especially as the CAT installers are built specifically for each
> organisation I think that creates a lot of overhead in contrast to the
> singele build of geteduroam?
>
> Greetings, Lukas
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Tomasz Wolniewicz
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