Re: gpg-agent support removed?!

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

On Fri, Apr 07 2006, Sascha Wilde wrote:

>   2006-04-06  Romain Francoise  <romain@orebokech.com>
>
>          * pgg-gpg.el: Sync back with Gnus 5.10, reverting changes that add
>          symmetric encryption features and a new asynchronous interface to
>          GnuPG.  This new version is version 1.4, plus whitespace changes.
>
> why was that done?!  And why was it done without any discussion or
> even informing the people involved?!?

Let me try to summarize (CMIIW):

There were several unresolved serious problems¹ (including your
report) with the new code.  So for the upcoming release of Gnus 5.10.8
we (Simon and me) agreed to revert `pgg-gpg.el' in the stable Gnus
branch (v5-10).

Simon's advised on keeping the new code in the Gnus trunk, so I
followed his suggestion.  I didn't have a strong option on what is
best for the version² in Emacs CVS, so I didn't touch it.  IIRC Simon
didn't express an opinion concerning this version neither.  Probably
Romain thought that the problems with the new code are too serious
also for Emacs CVS.

After the Gnus 5.10.8 release (which should be this week-end unless
Lars needs to shift it) we can put the new code plus Daiki's fixes
posted today back in all three branches.

Bye, Reiner.

¹ Unresolved serious problems with the new code in `pgg-gpg.el':
  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs/11591
  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/52450
  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/62567
  
  Maybe more?  I don't remember exactly.

² Normally the version in Emacs CVS and Gnus stable (v5-10) are and
  should be synched (semi-)automatically by Miles Bader.  Because of
  the upcoming stable Gnus release, I asked Miles suspend it until
  Gnus 5.10.8 is released.
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