GPA and GPGME

[David Shaw]

On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 08:00:41PM +0100, Miguel Coca wrote:
> > You should be able to use the HKP keyservers as well.  1.2.x comes
> > with a HKP handler, but it is not built by default.  Just do
> > "make gpgkeys_hkp" in the keyserver/ directory and it will be built.
> 
> Yes, but since it's not built by default, I'd bet it's not included in the
> binary distributions, and even people who compile their own gnupg are
> unlikely to have it enabled. So you can't assume it exists.

Ah, right.

> > By the way, there is now a way to tell which version of the keyserver
> > protocol a given helper uses.  Do gpgkeys_xxx -V and the first number
> > printed to stdout is the protocol version.  If nothing is printed,
> > assume "0".
> 
> Great. I was using the gpg version so far, but this seems to be better. Is
> protocol version 1 stable right now? I'll take a look at supporting it as
> soon as I can.

Mostly stable in that I have no plans to change it, but until it is
released it is still possible to change.

David

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