The release of GNU Privacy Guard version 2.0.0 [LWN.net]

The release of GNU Privacy Guard version 2.0.0

Posted Nov 16, 2006 11:10 UTC (Thu) by sdalley (subscriber, #18550)
Parent article: The release of GNU Privacy Guard version 2.0.0

Wow. V1.2.4 already had 39 different commandline actions and 46 commandline options. That's quite a few combinations to test and debug, now 2.0 adds another slew. It would be interesting to hear a bit about the software development approach, e.g. what was found to be good/bad in the v1 code re structure / maintainability / testability / inspectability, and what was changed in that regard dor the v2 fork.

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The release of GNU Privacy Guard version 2.0.0

Posted Nov 16, 2006 13:44 UTC (Thu) by liljencrantz (guest, #28458) [Link]

Also keep in mind that GPG 1.x has something like 200 different command line switches, that the man page is about 60 pages long, that several switches are only documented with descriptions like 'This is not for normal use. Use the source to see for what it might be useful.' or 'This is an obsolete option and is not used anywhere.', and you get a program this is... still easier to use than Emacs.

I kid, I kid.