On 25.04.17 22:39, Max Wilbert wrote: > Hi, > > I run the latest version of Postbox (a Thunderbird derivative) which > only supports Enigmail 1.2. Postbox lists the Enigmail team as their > developers for the add-on, but haven't shared the latest version of > Enigmail via their add-on site.
That's because the developers of Enigmail is the Enigmail team. But the specific build of Enigmail for Postbox is created by Postbox. > Would it be possible to run the latest Enigmail on Postbox> If not, what > would it take to port the latest version? Enigmail 1.2 was released in 2011, i.e. 6 years ago. Since then there have been a number of important API changes in Thunderbird that allowed me to replace all C++ code with JavaScript code. Postbox does not provide those APIs; Enigmail for Postbox is therefore still bound to C++ components. In order to port the current version of Enigmail to Postbox, you'd have to rewrite all the existing code to use the old APIs of 2011. In addition, there have been several important extensions to the JavaScript language since 2011. These extensions are used by Enigmail today. All of this would need to be rewritten to the JavaScript version used by Postbox. Overall, you'd have to repeat/rewrite a lot of what was developed over the last 6 years in Enigmail. It is in my eyes therefore simply impossible to port today's versions of Enigmail to Postbox. -Patrick
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