-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Aldert Hazenberg wrote: > > On Nov 13, 2006, at 4:28 PM, Werner Koch wrote: > >> A port to Windows might >> eventually be done but as of now I see no reason for it.
> What is your reason for no windows port of 2.0 ? > Is it a business reason ? Or ideological ? This was/is performed by the various GUI's for Windows Installations; the most well known being GPGshell, WinPT & Enigmail. There is also S/MIME support within GPG 2.0. In fact, 2.0 is far more bloated than the 1.4.x BRANCH. The Bottom Line is that nothing is /missing/ in 1.4.x Builds. GPGshell & WinPT will *not* work on Linux so GPG-Agent is the Linux version of a 'Shell' for easy manipulation of GnuPG within Linux. Because Linux Users secretly resent the variety of variety of GUI's available to Windows Users. (expect Lance & Alphax to rebut here) More & more Linux Users are not proficient in Command Line use nor do the ones who are particularly enjoy having to resort to it for routine Communication. Not everyone uses T-Bird/Enigmail with Linux. Also, there are these other Library dependencies in GPG 2.0: * The *gpg-agent* is the central place to maintain private keys and to cache passphrases. It is implemented as a daemon to be started with a user session. * *gpgsm* is an implementation of the X.509 and CMS standards and provides the cryptographic core to implement the S/MIME protocol. The command line interface is very similar to the one of gpg. This helps adding S/MIME to application currently providing OpenPGP support. * *scdaemon* is a daemon run by gpg-agent to access different types of smart cards using a unified interface. * *gpg-connect-agent* is a tool to help scripts directly accessing services of gpg-agent and scdaemon. * *gpgconf* is a tool to maintain the configuration files of all modules using a well defined API. Notice the 3 Items that GPG 2.0 brings to Linux Users: 1.) Smart Card Use 2.) S/MIME 3.) gpg.conf There is also cached passphrases; but basically, GPG 2.0 provides Linux MUA's many of the features that Windows Users take for granted. It just integrates them into the GnuPG Build. IMO: You are not being denied anything by sticking with 1.4.x on your Windows Box. My hope is that now that the 2.0 version has been released, more attention will be devoted to development of the 1.4.x BRANCH. JOHN ;) Timestamp: Monday 13 Nov 2006, 23:42 --500 (Eastern Standard Time) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6-svn4328: (MingW32) Comment: Public Key at: http://tinyurl.com/8cpho Comment: Gossamer Spider Web of Trust: http://www.gswot.org Comment: My Homepage: http://tinyurl.com/yzhbhx Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJFWUmHAAoJEBCGy9eAtCsPdnEH/iGmBYCfscVq/HzoQkPNuDiq JymYQ6K6c7eM6eDW3Po3f3U4zJLHqvit4bOpSSejp54Kjjh7VDOC0LEas8qCjxCe uw4OC8RwmBh4OSDALAy9QmGgIqRn0HPzjcMIcR3qhc/Pc1nvvrqVdR5POkrxcVq9 qBqkGVa02uQg+L38oNI9JMp1L3aDavVnnipms/ZkAHjB+buUgYPkbj6AGhj87nej 6rpnFKh+wYn2zuKGeJpIDO5aMYsNJmZZXR/zQtBoFJuQtZ3di9GsjYkHxR0fZr8O Z0kRA8rMmYkANizxc8keGtcQDOeXqojTZ3+7cc9zsmgO+vqi3pUkID7xL8f+mz8= =3SWr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
