No GnuPG library for now
Taral
taral@taral.net
Thu, 19 Oct 2000 23:15:44 -0500 (CDT)
Quoting Greg KH <greg@wirex.com>:
> On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 02:17:32PM -0500, Frank Tobin wrote:
> > Interfaces are always frozen if you design well at the beginning.
>
> Muawahha!!!
> Thanks, this had been a rough day. Thanks for the laugh.
*grin* I couldn't bring myself to comment on it.
> > This is exactly the approach that software engineering courses and
> books
> > teach against (unless you are doing XP, of course, which GnuPG
> doesn't
> > seem to be doing).
>
> And yet you are saying this is a bad thing?
> I don't understand.
Nor do I. Why would a book teach against that?
> I fully support the goal of auditing the code and making it cleaner
> over
> making a library, even though my job would be made _so_ much easier if
> there was a gnupg library (see http://www.immunix.org/cryptomark.html
> for more info.)
Well, hopefully the audit will result in sufficient modularity/stability that
someone else can fully library-ize the code.
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Taral <taral@taral.net>
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