gpgme 0.3.0 released

Simon Josefsson jas at extundo.com
Mon Oct 13 18:33:16 CEST 2003


Werner Koch <wk at gnupg.org> writes:

> On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 23:13:18 +0200, Simon Josefsson said:
>
>> as well.  libksba seem to be my best candidate, I just wanted to
>> reassure myself that it won't be a dead-end.
>
> I may change the API related to date and time.  Using time_t is not
> optimal because on 32 bit boxes we get into problems in 2038 and I
> have not managed to take my plan for a libxtime any further.  Maybe I
> am simply going to use strings with ISO dates - they are not scalar
> and thus the caller needs to free tthe string buffer.

There is 'struct tm' as well, although I rarely find it useful except
when converting to human readable formats.

> I have not made any decision, though.  And will be a minor API change
> which does not need too large changes on the caller's side.

Doesn't look too problematic.

Thanks again,
Simon




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