Re: Wrapper for GPGME

[Stéphane Corthésy]

Hi,

Last public release of GPGME.framework is for gpgme 0.3.14, but there 
is a branch GPGME_0_4 (?) in which the framework, has many more 
features and is linked against gpgme 0.4.2.
Someone (sorry, I don't remember who) ported GPGME 0.3.14 to GNUstep, 
and his work (the GNUmakefile and some compatibility #includes) has 
been merged in GPGME; I'm not sure I updated it in the dev branch.

Using GPGME on GNUstep should be straighforward; I think I made no 
dependency on anything but Foundation.
Problem with gpgme is that it's not yet complete: for example, you 
cannot sign keys (only data), nor can't you edit keys! In these cases 
you need to launch gpg and parse its output :-(

MacGPG suite is made out of an OSX installer for gpg, 2 frameworks 
(GPGME and GPGAppKit), and some applications to sign/encrypt data, and 
manage keys. All applications could be maintained for both OSX and 
GNUstep if you accept working with MacGPG people; everything is under 
GPL. Of course, you would have to replace nibs by Gorm files, as well 
as maintain your makefiles, but that's doable.

About GPGME API: GPGME API is unstable, because gpgme API is unstable. 
gpgme >= 0.4.1 has had a lot of changes compared to previous versions, 
but they think there API will be much stable since now on.

For more information, you can talk with MacGPG people on 
macgpg-devl@sourceforge.net

Stéphane

On Wednesday, Aug 27, 2003, at 15:28 Europe/Zurich, Christopher Culver 
wrote:

> On 2003-08-27 16:15:18 +0300 Nicolas Roard <nicolas@roard.com> wrote:
> > Cool ! a key manager is a really good idea :-) -- just what I missed 
> > to go
> > with GNUMail... ;-)
> > a GPGME lib could also be used by the GNUMail PGP bundle ..
>
> Well, I've already got it where it can list keys. Listing subkeys and 
> signatures will come tonight, deleting and signing keys in the next 
> couple of days, and generating new keys and signing/encrypting content 
> in the next couple of weeks. I hope interested people will contribute, 
> things will move faster if I'm not alone. Those who were scared off by 
> the code in my Charmap project will be happy to know I'm using Gorm 
> for KeyRing.
>
> I hope to keep the custom class small enough to where Ludo can just 
> copy it over to GNUMail. GPGME is a really nice library, and so far it 
> doesn't seem like it'll take anything big and convoluted to interface 
> with it.
>
> The only thing I'm worried about is API changes. The GPGME developer 
> says the API is in no way stable.
>
> Christopher Culver
>
> --
> Christopher Culver - crculver@users.sourceforge.net
> PGP key ID: ECA6CDA8 (sign only)
> Fingerprint: C162 22C6 DB7E D59D 0CEE 71D5 4E29 DE72 ECA6 CDA8
> PGP key ID: 8C444E97 (sign/encrypt)
> Fingerprint: E7BA D851 9714 8D97 C4F9 1777 8168 6913 8C44 4E97
>
> Developer of Charmap: http://www.nongnu.org/charmap/
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>
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