My asking was a sort of a joke although still not sure what the purpose of p≡p based on the following text from the Thunderbird 78 blog:
"Unlike Enigmail, OpenPGP in Thunderbird 78 does not use GnuPG software by default. This change was necessary to provide a seamless and integrated experience to users on all platforms." I do appreciate you explaining in more detail why Enigmail wont work in 78. If we are moving away from that "seamless and integrated experience" by using p≡p add-on what are you getting for that? On 9/7/2020 8:53 AM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: >> So then would it legitimate to have a version of Enigmail that >> continued to work with TB 78? :) > > Won't and can't exist. Please stop asking. > > We've given the reasons many, many times. Originally, the Thunderbird > user interface was done using a Mozilla technology called XPCOM. > Mozilla has since abandoned XPCOM; moving forward, all extensions have > to be written as WebExtensions. > > So all the XPCOM in Enigmail, the stuff that's accumulated over almost > twenty years of development? None of it works any more. > > Enigmail cannot be ported to TB78. We would have to literally start > over rewriting the user interface in WebExtension. The finished > product would not be Enigmail as you've come to know it: it would be > something completely new and different. > > If you want to develop your own Enigmail successor as a WebExtension, > knock yourself out. But please don't call it Enigmail. :) > > _______________________________________________ > enigmail-users mailing list > enigmail-users@enigmail.net > To unsubscribe or make changes to your subscription click here: > https://admin.hostpoint.ch/mailman/listinfo/enigmail-users_enigmail.net _______________________________________________ enigmail-users mailing list enigmail-users@enigmail.net To unsubscribe or make changes to your subscription click here: https://admin.hostpoint.ch/mailman/listinfo/enigmail-users_enigmail.net
