A while ago, the fellows at the Guardian Project released Java bindings for GnuPG. A project's come along where I could make use of them, and thought I'd give them a spin. I was quite surprised to discover that, as of this writing, they don't even build.
The offender seems to be jUnit. The gnupg-for-java code uses a lot of imports like "junit.framework", and the current jUnit drops everything in the org.junit namespace. On top of that, old test methods like TestSuite from jUnit 3.8 have been deprecated in favor of Suite, from more modern jUnits. This doesn't appear to be hard work. The test suite is about 250 lines of code, most of it fairly clear. If you know Java and would like to contribute to GnuPG but don't quite know where, this would seem to be an excellent "bite-sized" project to take on. (If anyone's wondering why I'm not doing it: following my long-standing rule, I don't contribute code patches for either GnuPG or Enigmail. Although I'm not an employee of the U.S. government, I have a lot of friends and family who are. If I contributed code, some people would make a ruckus about how GnuPG was now 'tainted'. To prevent this, and to maintain the community's trust in GnuPG, I don't touch the code.) _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
