a few GPGME issues

[Gordon Worley]

On Monday, April 22, 2002, at 02:54  AM, Werner Koch wrote:

> On Sun, 21 Apr 2002 20:58:17 +0200, Wichert Akkerman said:
>
>> Speaking of ABI and text-data: can you explain the reason for returning
>> data in XML format instead of structs? I can understand it makes the 
>> ABI
>> more stable, but it also means that an application will have to include
>
> The idea was that some large systems already use XML to some extend so
> it might be handy for them.  And it is quite nice for debugging gpgme.
> There is also the gpgme_key_get_{ulong,string}_attr interface which
> avoids the XML overhead as well as structures.

Or, if this gets on your nerves, you can write a wrapper that does it 
for you.  In GPGME.framework, we added a method that allows you to get a 
GPGKey as an NSDictionary which is very convenient in a lot of 
situations.

Agreed on the XML; it's great for debugging.

Oh, this is a side note, but is there any reason gpgme does not return 
the short (128 bit) key ID?  It's not as if it's hard to write a method 
to do it myself, but the short key IDs are very nice in some situations, 
like when listing keys in a window.

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