Re: OT egpg evaluation

2016-05-08 Thread Andrew Gallagher
On 8 May 2016, at 13:54, Dashamir Hoxha wrote: > >> On Sun, May 8, 2016 at 2:09 PM, flapflap wrote: >> I really don't think that bash is the right language here... > > But if you want to automate some tasks on the command line, bash seems to be > the perfect choice. By hand, yes. If you are

Re: OT egpg evaluation

2016-05-08 Thread Dashamir Hoxha
On Sun, May 8, 2016 at 2:09 PM, flapflap wrote: > > I really don't think that bash is the right language here... But if you want to automate some tasks on the command line, bash seems to be the perfect choice. ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@g

Re: OT egpg evaluation

2016-05-08 Thread Peter Lebbing
On 08/05/16 14:09, flapflap wrote: > (for that reason, most unix tools > accept a "--" argument to interpret all following args as input/file > names, not as commands) This includes gpg2. The complexity of the gpg2 command line means some things require a good ordering of options and commands, whi

Re: OT egpg evaluation

2016-05-08 Thread flapflap
Robert J. Hansen: > And at that point I decided that I *will not* test this code. If > WORKDIR is set in the user's environment before they start egpg, egpg > will shred and rm -rf $WORKDIR. This could have terrifying consequences > for my doctoral thesis, and even worse if someone has WORKDIR se

Re: OT egpg evaluation

2016-05-08 Thread Robert J. Hansen
> Do you think that renaming "WORKDIR" to "EGPG_TMP_WORKDIR" would fix it? I have tried very hard to be polite in my criticisms, but you seem to be under the unreasonable belief that politeness means I am amenable to working with you on it. I do not want to be involved with this in any way, excep

Re: OT egpg evaluation

2016-05-08 Thread Dashamir Hoxha
> > Do you think that renaming "WORKDIR" to "EGPG_TMP_WORKDIR" would fix it? > I think that this is a better fix: https://github.com/dashohoxha/egpg/commit/ff331e1db8f28a9521c2603f84fde1c9412702bd ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http:/

Re: OT egpg evaluation

2016-05-08 Thread Dashamir Hoxha
On Sun, May 8, 2016 at 10:48 AM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > > Do you think that renaming "WORKDIR" to "EGPG_TMP_WORKDIR" would fix it? > > I have tried very hard to be polite in my criticisms, but you seem to be > under the unreasonable belief that politeness means I am amenable to > working with

Re: OT egpg evaluation

2016-05-08 Thread Dashamir Hoxha
On Sun, May 8, 2016 at 9:56 AM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > > I found a potentially *system-destroying bug* in literally the *very > first function I inspected*. I've been very circumspect in my > criticisms until now, Dashamir, because I really want to encourage > people to hack on things. But it

Re: OT egpg evaluation

2016-05-08 Thread Robert J. Hansen
> Or is it totally a worthless idea. I think this code, in its current form, is genuinely dangerous, and should not be recommended to anyone. > Are you sure you used the right branch for testing? I didn't test it. What I saw while reading your code gave me such the heebie-jeebies I *won't* test

OT egpg evaluation

2016-05-07 Thread Dashamir Hoxha
Starting an other topic. On Sun, May 8, 2016 at 6:11 AM, Doug Barton wrote: > On 04/26/2016 06:37 AM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > >> I've looked over your egpg code. My bloodless technical evaluation is >> simple: "it is nowhere near ready for production environments." And I >> think if you read