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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: PGP 2 support
From:       Ingo =?iso-8859-1?q?Kl=F6cker?= <ingo.kloecker () epost ! de>
Date:       2001-10-30 8:37:57
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On Tuesday 30 October 2001 09:16, Jan-Oliver Wagner wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 09:00:49AM +0100, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> > So let's continue the discussion of the implementation. The plug-in
> > solution sounds really promising. But how should it be implemented.
> > IMO it should be made as generic as possible so that even programs
> > like KOffice can use encryption through this plug-in. That means
> > that we need high-level S/MIME resp. PGP/MIME support for KMail
> > (and mutt) and low-level signing/encryption support for all
> > programs which would like to use signing/encryption.
>
> this is a very understandable desire (we felt it also :-).
> However, the Ägypten project is not paid very well and to keep
> us living and to make this free software contract a success story,
> we must concentrate on KMail first.
> If anyone is able to spend time on further generalization we
> are happy to give input, but we just can't afford coding or a risk
> delay of our time schedule.

That's the difference between contracted developers and free developers. 
We don't have to obey any deadlines. O.k. there are feature freezes, 
but if a feature isn't ready on feature freeze it's simply delayed 
until the next major version. You don't have this freedom and therefore 
we might end up with a sub-optimal solution for KDE which would have to 
be enhanced by us afterwards because you are no longer "paid" for it. 
If possible this shouldn't happen because this would give a bad example 
of a contribution of some companies to the KDE project.

Regards,
Ingo
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