gpg winsock versions

Timo Schulz twoaday at gmx.net
Thu Sep 14 09:44:07 CEST 2006


Werner Koch wrote:

> I am not sure why 2.2 is required.  Timo, might now.

It's more a default that an required. Because 2.2 is the
most widespread versions among the different Window types (XP, 2K, 9X).



> For the other code 1.1 has always worked.

I guess backward compatibility is provided by MS as long
as possible. But IMHO it can't heart to use 2.2 as default
because only Win95 had problems with it.


	Timo




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