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On 12/12/07, William L. Thomson Jr. <wltjr@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 15:49 +0200, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: |
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> > gnupg-2 is drop-in replacement of gnupg-1, so eventually no slotting |
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> > should be used. |
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> Drop in according to YOU, which I have taken issue with since 1/1/07. |
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> Per last upstream release, and every one since 2.x was release, just as |
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> I have quoted and stated many times before. |
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> http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2007q3/000259.html |
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> "GnuPG-2 has a different architecture than GnuPG-1 (e.g. 1.4.6) in that |
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> it splits up functionality into several modules. However, both |
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> versions may be installed alongside without any conflict. In fact, |
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> the gpg version from GnuPG-1 is able to make use of the gpg-agent as |
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> included in GnuPG-2 and allows for seamless passphrase caching. The |
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> advantage of GnuPG-1 is its smaller size and the lack of dependency on |
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> other modules at run and build time. We will keep maintaining GnuPG-1 |
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> versions because they are very useful for small systems and for server |
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> based applications requiring only OpenPGP support." |
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As I told you before, I wont slot these two. |
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Best Regards, |
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Alon Bar-Lev. |
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