-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 Christopher C. Stacy wrote: > On winpt.sourceforge.net, I find a "Windows Privacy Tools" > aka "WinPT" project; this seems to be the one that Timo maintains. > (That is, it seems to be the "official" WinPT.) > The latest released version is 0.9.11. > There is also 1.0rc2 (2nd release candidate). >
I've got 0.9.92.0 (I don't remember where from). I was under the impression that the sourceforge version was no longer being maintained. > On www.gnupg.org, I find what seems to be the official GPG home page. > This includes a link to WinPT, but it points to a third place. > > The third place is www.equipmente.de, which is a German web site. > The suggested download is "gnupt-int.exe". > This seems to be the same file as > "gnupt-2.6.2.1_gpg1.4.1-wpt0.9.92-gpgrelay0.959-int.exe" > (although I'm not sure where I found the file under that name). > As best as I can tell, this "gnupt" is a conglomerate package > containing GPG 1.4.1, WinPT 0.9.92, and GPGRelay 0.959. > I already had GPG, and wasn't interested in GPGRelay. I wondered where I got that from :) > At some point, I installed WinPT (from SourceForge), > and this gave me a Windows Explorer context menu. > It mostly worked, but there are some bugs that will > crash Windows Explorer. These bugs have been reported > (not very completely) by other people on SourceForge. > Obviously I didn't get the entire package then... > However, when I install GnuPT instead, > I do not get any Explorer menu items. > How come the GnuPT version doesn't hack the Explorer menu? > Is that a bug? Is there something else I was supposed > to download to add that functionality? > GnuPT? Huh? Haven't heard of that one... > Hmmm, on the EQUIPMENTE site, I found something called "GPGee" > which provides the Windows Explorer functionality; it seems to work. > > Well, that worked. So maybe I'm done. > But I'm still slightly confused about what I've downloaded. > > But what's going on here? How does WinPT 0.9.11 relate to 0.9.92 > and to 1.0rc2? Why doesn't gnupg.org point to winpt.sourceforge.net? > Am I looking at competing forks of WinPT? Politics? > On the SourceForge page, Fabian Rodriguez says that was > managing the WinPT project, but that he needs a replacement. > And what's EQUIPMENTE? (It's all in German, so I have no idea > what I'm looking at there. I was very brave in downloading!) > How are all these projects related to each other? > I also was confused about this. However, WinPT is extraordinarily slow for me to use - it caches the entire keyring when it loads/anything changes, and with 700 keys it becomes unusable (actually, I gave up when my keyring hit 400). I would suggest checking out GPGShell from http://www.jumaros.de/rsoft/index.html - it appears to handle things in a reasonable manner, and has reasonable clipboard support. - -- Alphax OpenPGP key: 0xF874C613 - http://tinyurl.com/cc9up http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Alphax There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.' - C. S. Lewis -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD4DBQFC0j0e/RxM5Ph0xhMRAx5QAKCIrfp6Rf1wGqZiYqaUA1V/ND41PQCXf6ru BX73StofUoiF+JUpIBAH0g== =KcgK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
