From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reiner Steib Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Should we remove pgg-pgp5.el? Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 09:58:28 +0100 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Reiner Steib NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1164445155 24971 80.91.229.2 (25 Nov 2006 08:59:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 08:59:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juanma Barranquero , Daiki Ueno , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 25 09:59:11 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GntNI-0007NZ-Br for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Nov 2006 09:59:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GntNH-0003JH-S0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Nov 2006 03:59:03 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GntN0-0003IR-Nw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Nov 2006 03:58:46 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GntMy-0003H5-DB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Nov 2006 03:58:45 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GntMy-0003Gr-13 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Nov 2006 03:58:44 -0500 Original-Received: from [134.60.1.1] (helo=mail.uni-ulm.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GntMx-00007B-V4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Nov 2006 03:58:44 -0500 Original-Received: from bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de (bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de [134.60.10.123]) by mail.uni-ulm.de (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kAP8wUeg004337; Sat, 25 Nov 2006 09:58:30 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from viandante.physik.uni-ulm.de (bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de [134.60.10.123]) by bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de (Postfix) with SMTP id 3CA9F1236A; Sat, 25 Nov 2006 09:58:30 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: (nullmailer pid 32514 invoked by uid 170); Sat, 25 Nov 2006 08:58:29 -0000 Original-To: Stefan Monnier X-Face: 3Phac&+dw=IZHjhua]bp}LH<*p{qzj8u+ List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:62773 Archived-At: [ Cc-ing Daiki Ueno ] On Sat, Nov 25 2006, Stefan Monnier wrote: > In this particular case I believe that pgp5 is sufficiently rare, poorly > supported, and advantageously replaced by gpg (whether you care about your > own freedom or not), that I don't think Emacs has much to benefit from > supporting it. 1. `pgg-pgp5.el' might be required for people to read old encrypted mails, or does gpg provided full compatibility? Would people have to switch to other (non-Emacs-based) MUAs for decrypting such mails? 2. IIUC, PGG will be obsoleted by Daiki Ueno's new implementation EasyPG (for GnuPG 1.4.3 and up), so I don't think we should remove `pgg-pgp5.el' at this point (before the release). Bye, Reiner. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/