Re: Start implementing GnuPG support...

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj stampede org>]

Camel is still changing right now, hopefully by 1.0 the API will be
stable (heck, hopefully long before 1.0!)
Even still, there aren't many changes going on...

The only thing keeping the PGP/MIME implementation outside of Camel for
now is it's dependence on openpgp-utils.c which I'm not sure really
belongs in libCamel.

I don't know too well how the Balsa internals work, but I'd be willing
to answer any questions the Balsa developers might have about GMime,
etc.

Jeff

On 16 Feb 2001 19:42:42 +0100, Jose C. García Sogo wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 11:37:55AM +0100, Pawel Salek wrote:
> > 
> > On 2001-02-16 11:15 Jose C. García Sogo wrote:
> > >  I think this is the way Balsa should go. But I have not found any
> > > conclusion about if Pawel is going to start using it or not.
> > 
> > 1. I confirm that libmutt will be deprecated - sooner or later.
> > 
> > 2. GMime seems very promising but I haven't figured out possible
> > conflicts with libESTMP and/or camel which both seem quite appealing.
> > Can somebody tell us some details about these packages?
> 
>   I don't know anything about libESTMP.
> 
>   About Camel, I see some issues:
>       1. For now, it is tied up with Evolution (I haven't found it as a different
>       package, and it does not make sense to install Evo to get Camel ;-)
>       
>       2. How much is its API frozen? When have to consider that the API can change
>       breaking compatibility.
> 
>       3. It does not support PGP/MIME. Its support is added in Evo in 
>       mail/mail-crypto.c, not in Camel
> 
>   And GMime only adds Mime support, not all the stuff that Camel provides.
> 
>   Perhaps Jeffrey Stedfast can help us a bit more, as he is really developing Evo
>  and is also the author of GMime.
> 
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> José Carlos García Sogo         Seahorse(-bonobo) developer
> jose jaimedelamo eu org         http://seahorse.sourceforge.net
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