<div dir="ltr">Sorry, the proper link to the archived message is this one:<br><div><a href="https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-devel/2018-July/033854.html">https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-devel/2018-July/033854.html</a><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Mar 17, 2019 at 6:13 PM Dashamir Hoxha <<a href="mailto:dashohoxha@gmail.com">dashohoxha@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi,<br><div><br></div><div>Last year we discussed a request/proposal for improving the command line UI of gnupg: </div><div><a href="https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-devel/2018-July/033857.html" target="_blank">https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-devel/2018-July/033857.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>We decided that making radical changes to the current UI of gnupg is a huge task, risky, unfeasible, and in general not worth the trouble. </div><div><br></div><div>However I came up with a proposal for writing just a wrapper to the current gpg command, that organizes the commands and options in a different way, presumably more easy and intuitive. This wrapper will not affect in no way the gpg command itself, it will be just like "syntactic sugar", and in the end it will call the gpg command itself, with the proper arguments and options.</div><div><br></div><div>This wrapper can be written in Bash, Python, Go, etc. It should be very easy to develop such a wrapper, assuming that we already know all the details about the commands and options of gnupg, and we have a clear idea about the new system of commands and options that we want to build. This new system of commands and options doesn't have to cover 100% of the functionality of the gpg command; for the few things that may remain unimplemented the user may use the gpg command directly.</div><div><br></div><div>I think this is suitable task for a GSoC project that can be developed in 2-3 months by a good student, with help and guidance from mentors. It can be submitted to GNU, which acts as an ombrella organization on GSoC for all the gnu projects:</div><div><a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/soc-projects/ideas-2019.html" target="_blank">https://www.gnu.org/software/soc-projects/ideas-2019.html</a><br></div><div>I think it is worth a try, there is nothing to risk or to loose.</div><div><br></div><div>Anybody interested or willing to be a mentor for this project? I might be a mentor as well, if needed, since I do have some mentoring experience from the last year GSoC.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Dashamir</div></div>
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