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request for comments: GnuPG Interface Library
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Greetings all,

I have been working on designing a useful, flexible, and extensible
interface for those who interact with GnuPG with Perl. As GnuPG grows
more and more in popularity, a good Perl library to interact with GnuPG
will be needed because GnuPG is so powerful. Harnessing this power for the
programmer in an easy-to-user manner will allow GnuPG to thrive in at
least Perl environments.

I've provided a detailed description of my current ideas on a good
interface that could be implemented fairly easily in Perl, and hopefully
in other languges also at:

http://www.neverending.org/~ftobin/gnupg_interface/

Please feel free to provide feedback on this design; I _am_ going to write
an interface; it's just a matter of getting the design done well. To do
this well I feel I need outside eyes; hence I'm appealing especially to
those who write Perl to provide comments.

Thank you for your time.


- --
Frank Tobin http://www.neverending.org/~ftobin/

"To learn what is good and what is to be valued,
those truths which cannot be shaken or changed." Myst: The Book of Atrus

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Re: request for comments: GnuPG Interface Library [ In reply to ]
Frank Tobin <ftobin@uiuc.edu> writes:

> Please feel free to provide feedback on this design; I _am_ going to
> write an interface; it's just a matter of getting the design done
> well. To do this well I feel I need outside eyes; hence I'm appealing
> especially to those who write Perl to provide comments.

you might wish to explore exporting gnupg's library interface using swig
(see http://www.swig.org). the result would be useful not only for many
scripting front-ends, not only perl.

thi