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Andras Mantia amantia at kde.org
Thu Feb 3 08:09:17 GMT 2005


On Thursday 03 February 2005 02:13, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> FWIW, the GnuPG people advice against using gpg directly. Instead you
> should use gpgme. The good thing is that Marc Mutz has already
> written a qgpgme wrapper (it's in kdepim/libkdenetwork). The bad
> thing is that gpgme is still GPL (but this might change) and thus
> qgpgme is as well which means it can't go into kdelibs currently.
> Moreover, we'd have a compile-time dependency on gpgme. Anyway, it's
> the correct solution because once GnuPG 2 is finished we'll even have
> S/MIME support for free.

But if gpgme remains GPL, it is out of question.... I know it'd better 
to not use gpg directly, but this is what I could do now. If things are 
progressing on their side as well, for KDE 4 we can switch to gpgme 
(and move the wrapper to kdelibs).

Andras

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