having a library pass GnuPG options

[Werner Koch]

On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Frank Tobin wrote:

> I now notice that GnuPG now graciously handles:
> 
> gpg --sign --clearsign
> 
> What is the 'preferred' call?  As I am developing for a module, I need to
> heavily think about forward compatibility.  The same question go for
> detached signatures; interestingly, '--clearsign' seems to override
> '--detach-sig'.

gpg --clearsign

The problem arises from the compatibilty to PGP 2, there are some ugly
hacks to implement most of PGP's commandline syntax.  That is the
reason why you sometimes don't get the error: conflicting commands.
I'd suggest to use only one command, so:

  --sign          for standard signing
  --detach-sign	  for detached signatures
  --clearsign     for cleartext signatures

These are guaranteed to work for any later versions.  Maybe I can
change the error reporting in futrue, so that you get an error wenh
using conflicting long commands..

> conforms to a strict routine, if I'm not mistaken.  I've once looked at
> pgpglue but that seems sorely out of date.

We should really work again on this thing.

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