Hi All,
I have a suggestion for a change to the gpg setup before releasing the
next stable version.
Currently, the included gpg.rc file is set to use the gpg-2comp script
for signing. This is a nice script, which allows the use of old RSA
signatures.
However, for a stable-version mutt, it would be best to have the
default/recommended setup be as straightforward as possible. If one
doesn't have the need to make old signatures, then there should be no
need to require an external dependency on a script which asks
individual users to do customizations. If someone wants to do old
signatures, then having the current setup commented out but available
for intrepid souls is a good idea.
Thus, in contrib/gpg.rc, please change the calls to gpg-2comp to simple
calls to gpg.
If I'm managing a multi-user system and want to do an upgrade to
mutt-1.2, it should be as simple as having users source a new system rc
file. At the very least, including the gpg-2comp script in the mutt
install would make life easier, although for people who don't need it,
requiring the invocation of an extra perl script for each signing is
rather wasteful.
Other than that, things are looking good - kudos to the dev people for
their good work!
Alec
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Alec Habig, Boston University Particle Astrophysics Group
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http://hep.bu.edu/~habig/
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