On 12/28/2012 05:13 PM, brian m. carlson wrote: >> Fortunately for my own Crypt::OpenPGP goals, recent work on Math::Prime >> and Crypt::RSA might relieve us of some Math::PARI dependencies, which >> could clear the way forward for Crypt::OpenPGP (finally!) by jessie. > > Can you point me to where that work's occuring? I'd be happy to > contribute if it means I don't need Math::PARI. https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=52689 It looks like there's some rough consensus to have the PARI-less Crypt::RSA become the new version of Crypt::RSA soon. I was planning to ITP it when that happens (though i might also consider packaging Alt::Crypt::RSA::BigInt first, if anyone with deeper debian-perl knowledge can provide guidance on how "Ingy's Alt namespace idea" might interact with debian packaging). >> brian, what in particular do you want or need Math::PARI for? Maybe >> there's another route that would help you get to your goal? > > As I said, I want it for Crypt::OpenPGP. Crypt::OpenPGP sounds > interesting, but it can't yet be used to build a fully-featured OpenPGP > implementation. I want to change that, and I'd like to build such an > implementation, as well as a keyserver that honors the no-modify bit. sweet, i'm glad we're on the same page. sorry i missed your earlier comment about Crypt::OpenPGP. > I'd like to point out that several other modules are missing for > Crypt::OpenPGP to be functional without using cpan. I can open RFPs for > those if there's interest in packaging them. Which modules are those? I haven't looked at the chain in a little while, but i thought we'd packaged up most of the rest of the non-PARI dependencies. I'm probably wrong :) --dkg
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