-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 We recently discussed in (a part of) the Enigmail team that we should think about giving up support for GnuPG 1.4.x.
Reasons: * GnuPG 2.0 was released in November 2006; it has proven for a long time to be stable. * While GnuPG 1.4 still makes sense on embedded devices and computers with limited resources, this does not hold anymore for today's PCs. * We still have quite a lot of GnuPG 1.4-specific code, and maintenance of Enigmail is more complex with more versions of GnuPG (e.g. password handling / bug 287). My plan is as follows: * Enigmail 1.8.x will still support GnuPG 1.4.x. However, if Enigmail detects GnuPG 1.4.x, a message will be displayed saying that GnuPG 1.4.x is considered deprecated and will no longer be supported in future major versions of Enigmail. * Enigmail 1.9.x will not support GnuPG 1.4.x anymore. We will either point users to a web page from where they can download GnuPG 2.x, or we will offer to install GnuPG 2.x directly from Enigmail (just like the wizard already does it). A decision for which way to go is not yet taken. I expect to release Enigmail 1.9 in late Q3 or Q4 2015. Please let me know if this would cause major issues that I'm not aware of. - -Patrick -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJU0lMsAAoJENsRh7ndX2k7DTAP/1qWTNdAdCpJRJ/e8KllIQHP ++s3Oc7AsIutIANY3b9Z/Lwx32o3N4AaAwV4EJpAc2x7JgH4uSRwRpbJftsBYWTw TWpJt5XqRgKbu2nvQJLbdTvQ1NpdzXjd+yPc9NguGcc2ZOknRw23sMCFFOgVvRMN jMZEhczYS5K5FWJ3sd2yAAa4smYqnE/VUOV7orBGiklRU5bdQmXgzwcvdnXLOegP vY5OGBQscGK6m0q58z9X9DQTWJeQ9c8dERwfytMSHSNCTnZ/xIVr4Uhw0kc4n28w f/2kGMuSSiyGgq11+lTqYtt1SPgzP+qb6/CbrtGC5gRq1IwRqCPuNSsgXs8NTjav kyjgtW5LBjPqHq0OHcyAum8NVRguvelKDHFfnfke8Xv3B98Wyi7f0lktZV2GXwAf iWY03Hy6jjqN0tVTX5Qx+eL4JfBSMLT4WDs3K/A+pEsl+y3rIBBkyhU8FUc+7ydj P+vrdZ1QuLHGExXQCdJNtrmlNMWeGOBjRmkIgCh08PoFOZPHb/tlYuvdpLpNpOxY Ag7mIvGjPRSGI8pCLE2ZLBzorIsM/9Drcxj8QX4Wjn82aZmGQVKjK3Fh11+LiK5O H9oyy1+ibollUMQ3xVAlUQ57D8vry7ZGF7Zoal39jPyzQrclJUL3pECkVvIRx/DY Wqia2iw858fg4L3OvSkq =ngbN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ enigmail-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or make changes to your subscription click here: https://admin.hostpoint.ch/mailman/listinfo/enigmail-users_enigmail.net
