On Mar 3, 2015, at 7:09 PM, Peter Lebbing wrote: > On 03/03/15 18:29, Hans of Guardian wrote: >> Android has an installed base of hundreds of millions. Desktop UNIX >> is the exotic system here as compared to Windows, Android, etc. > > I have no idea about how difficult it is to launch the gpg binary with a > few pipes attached to a few file descriptors and perhaps anything else > you need. > > But I fail to see why you brought it up. > > I thought we were discussing two alternatives: > > - Call gpg directly > - Use a library such as GPGME that calls gpg for you > > In both cases, the gpg binary is executed as a separate process. So it > seems to me any issues with this are the same in both cases. In fact, if > it indeed is tricky as you say, you're better off if you have a library > do this for you, so you don't have to get it right in each and every > application. > > Peter.
In Android, you can't really have shared libraries. Apps share functionality at a higher level (aka Activities and Services). So GnuPG-for-Android _is_ the shared library in effect, since it provides OpenPGP via Activities. No one is saying that each app should have a custom wrapper for GnuPG. What I think mailpile is saying, and what I'm trying to say is that for programming environments where GPGME does not make sense, there should be the ability to easily make a native version of what GPGME is doing. .hc _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
