A good step forward would be the integration of language bindings into the gpgme package.
Not to beat a broken drum, but making it easier to use GPGME from a Microsoft environment would also be nice. MSVC++ needs a .lib file for each DLL you're going to link against, and GPGME/Win32 doesn't ship with one. Although workarounds exist (making your own .lib file, dynamically opening the DLL, etc.), it would be nice if GPGME could be released with a .lib file. I'm not particularly keen on Microsoft environments for a lot of reasons. However, they do have 85%-90% marketshare. If our goal is ideological purity, MS should be avoided; if our goal is to provide privacy tools to the most people possible, we need to consider MS environments to be a high priority.
That should make it easier to use it from languages other than C, C++ (, and CL). However, someone needs to feel responsible for such a language binding and try to keep it up to date.
Given the announcement yesterday from MS about how they're opening up the .NET server stack, I think we might see a resurgence of C# in the UNIX space. I have to say, it'd be really nice to see C# bindings for GPGME. There's already one set of them, gpgme-sharp, but I believe they're unmaintained. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
