On 06/02/2015 7:35 am, Patrick Brunschwig wrote: > On 05.02.15 21:02, Doug Barton wrote: >> On 2/4/15 11:01 PM, Patrick Brunschwig wrote: >>> The question is not so much the effort - you won't get a figure >>> from me. The main concern is code complexity, which makes things >>> hard to read, understand, develop, improve or fix. > >> Yes, I get that. :) But without some sort of quantification it's >> impossible to intelligently answer the question, "Is the cost of >> keeping the 1.x code in worth it compared to the benefit of >> allowing Enigmail users to continue to use 1.x?" > >> From my perspective, until the majority of OS' that ship GnuPG are >> shipping 2.x by default, removing 1.x support is premature. I >> should add that I'm using that transition as a bellwether of sorts, >> as I *think* that seeing this transition will also indicate that >> the majority of end users have switched, and are comfortable with >> the ways that GnuPG 2 is different. > > "The majority of the OS" would be Linux and other Unix derivatives > only. On Windows and Mac OS X, the two most common GnuPG tools would > ship 2.0.x. > > And for Linux, how long do you want to wait any longer? As I wrote, > GnuPG 2.0 was released *8* years ago. If that transition didn't happen > "automatically" by now, then I think it's time to enforce it. The > arguments for Linux distributions to stick to GnuPG 1.4 seem to be > quite weak to me. >
8 years is not enough for a dedicated Linux user to change anything - about 80 would suit them better :-) Following on from this discussion, I installed GnuPG 2.0 in Linux Mint 17.1 64bit yesterday, exactly as it came from the repository. It installs and works just fine using Thunderbird/Enigmail - except that when you go into the preferences it throws up a large screen saying it won't use gpg-agent. I'm not sure if this matters much, or at all - those more technical will no doubt tell me. Since it works OK, I see no reason not to use it. If the information is of any use to anyone, it also works in Windows 10 64 bit technical preview version. So, I've changed my early opinion (which was based on ignorance of the facts) and I see no reason whatever for most people not to switch. Regards, Bob _______________________________________________ enigmail-users mailing list enigmail-users@enigmail.net To unsubscribe or make changes to your subscription click here: https://admin.hostpoint.ch/mailman/listinfo/enigmail-users_enigmail.net
