[1.7] ITP: pinentry

[Yaakov (Cygwin/X)]

On 19/10/2009 17:48, Charles Wilson wrote:
> This is a collection of simple PIN or passphrase entry dialogs which
> utilize the Assuan protocol as described by the aegypten project; see
> http://www.gnupg.org/aegypten/ for details.

No time for a review today, but:

> There are programs for different toolkits available:
>
> GUI             OPTION                   DEPENDENCIES
> Curses          --enable-pinentry-curses Curses library, for example ncurses
> GTK+ V1.2       --enable-pinentry-gtk    Gimp Toolkit Library Version 1.2
>                                           eg. libgtk-1.2 and libglib-1.2
> GTK+ V2.0       --enable-pinentry-gtk2   Gimp Toolkit Library, Version 2.0
>                                           eg. libgtk-x11-2.0 and libglib-2.0
> Qt              --enable-pinentry-qt     Qt, eg. libqt or libqt-mt
> Qt4             --enable-pinentry-qt4    Qt4
>
> This cygwin package builds only the curses, gtk1, and gtk2 versions,
> although the qt versions and perhaps the native win32 version may be
> added in later cygwin releases.

Please do not make a gtk1 version.  gtk+-1.2 is obsolete, and while it 
remains for now in the distro due to existing dependencies on it, I 
would like to drop it by the time gtk+-3.0 comes out next year.  Now is 
not the time to be adding gtk1 packages, particularly where gtk2 is 
available.

As for Qt, 3.x is now obsolete, but there are still a (diminishing) 
number of programs yet to be ported.  Of course, the difference here is 
that I haven't got Qt4 into the distro yet because of a number of 
dependencies not yet included (MySQL, GStreamer, and xine-lib, the 
latter two of which have a large number of deps themselves).  So I won't 
object if you want to add a Qt3 version in the meantime.


Yaakov