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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: PGP 2 support
From:       Karl-Heinz Zimmer <khz () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-10-30 9:00:23
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On Tuesday 30 October 2001 09:37, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> 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.
..

Ingo, you are absolutely right here but still there _is_ a way how
we could get both this time:  Jan wrote "we just can't afford coding or
a risk delay of our time schedule" and this means we will not be able
to make work on KOffice or other projects to add signing functionality
or something similiar.

_Of_ _course_ we can and will make our specification for the upper
interface of our Plug-In together with you - to make sure, _you_ can
add such functionallity to your other programs!

Please do the following: Each time we write something like "we
can't do that" just add in your mind "but we will listen to your
hints how we could make our thing so you will gain the most benefit
from it and you could continue to build things using our mid or low
level modules".

:-)

Karl-Heinz


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