On Fri, May 29, 2026 at 11:45:50PM -0400, marqueandreprisal--- via Gnupg-users wrote: > No. It is not unavoidable a properly functioning PGP 1 without bugs like > GnuPG has can fit on a floppy and runs on DOS. Actually you could do a 180 > and rebuild libs specifically for GnuPG but it is counterintuitive. There is > no reason why developers can't develop fully functioning programs, believe > it or not it can still be done even on these junk machines you can still > build a full functional program and it could be a PGP clone that works > right. Might could be.
OK, I'll bite. But only this once. I am not engaging in a long discussion. ...and what happens if, later, either the same developer or a different one want to use some of the functionality without implementing it over and over and over again? Or without copying source code that, if not maintained in a library with versioned releases, *will* get stale and buggy? There are many reasons a software developer may decide to break some of the code out into a library. Most of them boil down to "...and I also want to use this in that other program", but there are also others - shared authorship, development by a different team for some specific subset, many others. Also, there are many reasons a software developer may decide to *use* an *already written* library instead of reimplenting the same thing from scratch and taking months to stumble across all the bugs and corner cases that *have already been solved* in the ready-made library. It is true that any programmer can choose to write any specific program from scratch without using any code already written. However, doing that *always*, as a rule, would be just... silly. Very, very silly. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] PGP key: https://www.ringlet.net/roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13
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