On 27-08-2015 23:37, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > The 2.x branch is the future of GnuPG development, has been for some > years now, and is what the GnuPG developers recommend for new users.
I see this attitude a lot among software developers and it irritates me: drop support for "obsolete" features and still try to force everyone to upgrade, combined with the inability to accept that at some time software can be feature-complete and only bugfixes are needed. It's the same attitude MS has when pushing windows 10 to windows 7 users. Last time I saw this with crypto software was when TextSecure dropped support of encrypted SMS. Being open source, it was quickly forked but now people have to use 2 different applications. A pitty. -- ir. J.C.A. Wevers PGP/GPG public keys at http://www.xs4all.nl/~johanw/pgpkeys.html _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
