-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 04.02.15 21:21, Doug Barton wrote: > On 2/4/15 9:13 AM, Patrick Brunschwig wrote: >> 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 knee-jerk reaction is that we're not yet at the point where 1.x > usage has dropped sufficiently to warrant this change,
There may have been some misunderstanding. The upcoming Enigmail 1.8 (some weeks away) does NOT remove support for gnupg 1.4. This will happen with 1.9. 1.9 will maybe released in time for Thunderbird 38, which is due by summer this year. This is all speculation. We still don't know if there will be code changes in Thunderbird 38 which make a new Enigmail release necessary. > but before I cast a "No" vote (for whatever that's worth) I'm > curious as to how much more complex development efforts are due to > the 1.x code? Passphrase handling in Enigmail itself - necessary for gnupg 1.4 - is a provisional solution and has a hard to catch and ugly bug (https://sourceforge.net/p/enigmail/bugs/287/) HTH Ludwig -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJU0o1OAAoJEDrb+m0Aoeb+om8P/iFpgrU1awuVc+LA4hrHavBS pZxrwiTlcZ4F17FDonDZNtDZIm3iWDq1dUUNwZvMPw9X/GAqwBdRJXjBNTTk3j4Q /CbFVO9655P2FB2gQkkpJKxoarlFeCdofKydP9XCdE1n9dgWxSkku70IfguhwRfK GWsUOm2OY/NppxANBa6lwYp5yvZfErt1PIjTXQxFBkn0exn4RTxJ/20uoilTzpfy OeVe4j7NdTO8WE/r2RC1gLF5k56Mi80Z3KO1QhxGasUu7HNHf2wbnQbBYjF4sy1/ eP4laTPbFm3jr3NR42TArso+SsidCWxzK2HND7Lue9NZDHMVex2crzC8Seho2SPt gpdvHhKLBTtxcpyiIsv+v0YotHPNX704eE+FEPp1gOXJgqPReqgj4LyZ88dH0ZKD SLNAPMTynGi3KAXUKlCU/H160FM0PNNsUT2TZ2yu+RMS7aei768YObKl1HNcl3aT w3HHOtZ/5TsxlaRJR5l1DoYNuftJPFKj8OZRoDXM5fJcEBmmslDEPH/AZV89MWKo cdDo4TT7G36TlUffAtkRs2ONVTA7K7K1ZN5P0ntWGfd4HT+lqtiEYSBWKpU7Rx5T tWSuDgTYuCT4IpBnA+ATnOlEbwpXTS/gsTZkxHUepLeYm1PS0h+IuzpYNIurGcS/ nT9NrwvsUzJfARkwHUW6 =bWa9 -----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
