Re: PGP vs. GnuPG again... sorry
On Sat, Nov 07, 1998 at 12:24:06PM +0000, Jules Bean wrote:
> >>From the PGP Userguide, Volume II :
> >
> > An exit status code of zero means normal exit, while a nonzero exit
> > status indicates some kind of error occurred. Different error exit
> > conditions return different exit status codes to the shell.
> >
> > This looks like a pretty good check actually.
>
> The point is that GPG is 'broken' w.r.t to exit codes. However, Debian
> would like to transition to GPG a.s.a.p. since PGP is painfully non-free.
Come on, unless GPG is an absolute ball of gunk (coding-wise), changing the
return codes should take about ten minutes. I heard about this a long time
ago -- is it really still a problem?
There are lots of good reasons not to parse program output looking for
success/error messages. One is internationalization.
Have fun,
Avery
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