BZip2 sources and GnuPG tarball

Timo Schulz twoaday at gmx.net
Tue Jun 21 07:59:41 CEST 2005


On Mon Jun 20 2005; 21:58, David Shaw wrote:

> libcurl, libusb, libreadline, and yes, libbz2.  It is just not
> possible for GnuPG to include all of them - it defeats the point of
> libraries.  The included copies would inevitably fall out of date,
> they would have to be actively watched for new versions of security

And IIRC, zlib is just included to build the W32 binary without the
dependency to have an external zlib lib (DLL) somewhere to provide 
basic OpenPGP functions.


        Timo



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