Some thoughts on working with GnuPG

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Monday 09 February 2015 20:27:09 Werner Koch wrote:
> Back in October Smári posted an article with the problems he encountered
> while integrating GnuPG into mailpile.  See
> https://www.mailpile.is/blog/2014-10-07_Some_Thoughts_on_GnuPG.html .
> 
> I asked him whether I may comment on this over at gnupg-user and with
> 2.1.0 out of the way I started to draft a response.  However, I then
> figured that 2.1 bug fixes are more important and thus I did not
> finished that response.  Find below what I already wrote.  I yanked the
> text from the browser, thus there may be formatting issues; I also
> skipped parts which are not relevant for my comments.
> 
> > One of the things I'm largely to blame for in Mailpile is the GnuPG
> > interface. It's a chunk of Python code that executes the GnuPG binary,
> > tosses information at it, and figures out what to do with the
> > output. There are lots of libraries for doing this, but after a great
> > deal of exploration I found that all of the Python libraries that did
> > this were insufficient for our needs, and the only thing crazier than
> > manually forking out GnuPG in our situation would be to use the PGPME
> > library.

Hehe. This reminds me of the time when I improved KMail's support for GnuPG, 
PGP 2, PGP 5 and PGP 6 parsing the human readable output (with LANG=C to avoid 
breakage due to i18n). But that was more than 15 years ago. I wish there would 
have been something like gpgme back then.


Regards,
Ingo
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