UI

Juergen A. Erhard jae at laden.ilk.de
Fri Oct 23 17:55:09 CEST 1998


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A couple of points:

  + I've checked the docs (as much as there is), but there seems to be
    no explanation on why a simple

    gpg

    `hangs'.  It seems it wants some input (^D terminates).  Why does
    it do that?  Why not just give some short help (less than a
    typical screenful), and terminate?

  + Couldn't some of the commands/options be a little shorter?  Why is
    --list-ownertrust not simply --list-trust?

  + Where's the argument parsing coming from?[1]  Standard GNU
    getopt-long does not need the full option, just enough so it is
    uniquely identified.  Whereas the current parser needs the *full*
    option (--list-secret-keys is nice and long, --list-sec would be
    much nicer to type).

Anyway, thanks for listening,

Bye, J

[1] arparse.c mentions WkLib... I didn't check whether WkLib is
mentioned anywhere else in the sources, but I'm sure I haven't seen it
before.  What *Wk*Lib stands for is anyone's guess ;-)

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