Hello! John W. Moore III schrieb: > The Bottom Line is that nothing is /missing/ in 1.4.x Builds. Even if this was true, it is probably not wise to furnish Windows users with an 'old' version of GnuPG. People may have the impression that it is not maintained as well anymore. Obviously, this is a marketing perspective (and may even be incorrect) but depending on the goals of the GnuPG project, this point should not be overlooked. If you want to reach end-users (I assume so), Windows still is *the* market and will remain so for the foreseeable future. I'm not sure that "we will keep maintaining 1.x because it's still useful" (GnuPG 2.0 announcement) is the right message here.
Apart from this soft reason, a replacement for pageant (Putty's SSH agent) that does support the OpenPGP smartcard is *definitely* something I would want under Windows. :-) Also, not every GnuPG-GUI does passphrase-caching (which is AFAIK a slightly different thing than what the agent does, anyway). Not so definite about S/MIME but would surely be nice to have as well (sometimes, one may want to use it outside of a mailer program or just have a central certificate storage independent of the mailer). Developers will be more qualified to comment here, but I imagine that a "well defined API" to manage the configuration would also be a nice thing compared to the various rather ad-hoc (I think) methods currently in use by the available GUIs. Same could be true for scdaemon and the other development-focused features. Summarizingly, I hope that there will be a Windows version. If nothing else, there should be a clear commitment as to the future of 1.4.x (i.e. not only maintaining but active further development) to avoid the feeling that Windows users have a "second class" GnuPG. Just my 2 cents, Sven Radde _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
