On 12/12/07, William L. Thomson Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 15:49 +0200, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
> >
> > gnupg-2 is drop-in replacement of gnupg-1, so eventually no slotting
> > should be used.
>
> Drop in according to YOU, which I have taken issue with since 1/1/07.
> Per last upstream release, and every one since 2.x was release, just as
> I have quoted and stated many times before.
>
>  http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2007q3/000259.html
>
> "GnuPG-2 has a different architecture than GnuPG-1 (e.g. 1.4.6) in that
> it splits up functionality into several modules.  However, both
> versions may be installed alongside without any conflict.  In fact,
> the gpg version from GnuPG-1 is able to make use of the gpg-agent as
> included in GnuPG-2 and allows for seamless passphrase caching.  The
> advantage of GnuPG-1 is its smaller size and the lack of dependency on
> other modules at run and build time.  We will keep maintaining GnuPG-1
> versions because they are very useful for small systems and for server
> based applications requiring only OpenPGP support."

As I told you before, I wont slot these two.

Best Regards,
Alon Bar-Lev.
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