Improving the command line UI of gpg

[Peter Lebbing]

On 02/08/18 00:53, Tobias Mueller wrote:
> Because... someone decided that this is not a thing that any external
> program would ever legitimately do.

Or less flippantly, because you can always do the really uncommon things
on the GnuPG command line, supposing that anybody confident enough to
root around where most do not go would also be proficient in using a
command line. I don't see anything wrong with that supposition.

That a user conceivably might ever want to do something doesn't mean the
feature needs to be replicated in a bunch of frontends, at the cost of
development time spent elsewhere.

By the way, I've more than once seen Werner show a way to do something
with the underlying Assuan protocol that isn't directly available
through the API of GPGME, but in that way available to GPGME users anyway.

And sometimes it can be solved through --status-fd and friends.

Peter.

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