Re: gnupg problem
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>>>>> "Joseph" == Joseph Pingenot <jap3003@ksu.edu> writes:
Joseph> Hrm. I'll look at pgpgpg when I can. Thanks for the info. :)
Joseph> The basic idea would be that, if you just need a generic pgp
Joseph> implementation, use dpgpw and its unified interface. If you're
Joseph> somehow linking to a *specific* pgp implementation, then you'd
Joseph> list that implementation instead of dpgpw.
Yes, I think that it would be nice to have a generic pgp interface. I
just don't see it happening any time soon (for the reason outlined
below). Although if you volunteer to make it happen... :-)
Hubert> Changing all the packages to work properly wouldn't be a simple
Hubert> task. (Not saying that it's a bad idea, though.)
Joseph> Aside from the issues of creating a unified command line
Joseph> interface, I don't see how.
Well, the problem isn't in creating the wrappers (IMHO). It's in making
the front-ends work with the wrappers: it wouldn't be as simple as
doing a search-and-replace for pgp with dpgpw. Some programs (I'm sure
that x-pgp-sig-el isn't the only one) think that they know something
about the pgp implementation, and so making these programs work with the
wrapper might require some extra effort.
We could just let these packages depend on pgp rather than the wrapper,
but ultimately, the goal would be to make it use the wrapper. But I
suspect that making even just one frontend work with the wrapper might
take quite a bit of work. Of course, now I'm talking about stuff that I
don't know much about, so this looks like a good place to end my
message. ;-)
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