GPGTools – OpenPGP Tools for Apple OS X • Hacker News Board

Aloisius wrote: post #3

hackerboos wrote: post #2

Great tool but it's annoying how it messes with homebrew.

Does it? I haven't noticed any problems.

Run `brew doctor` after installing.

Re: GPGTools – OpenPGP Tools for Apple OS X

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Post by tunesmith » Tue, May 21, 2013, 7:57 PM UTC

What's the best way to ensure faster turnaround when a new OS X version comes out? Is the constraint money, or is it more that they need more developers?

Re: GPGTools – OpenPGP Tools for Apple OS X

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Post by chmars » Tue, May 21, 2013, 7:59 PM UTC

Great tool but who wants to way months after each major OS X release to use it (again)?

GPGTools is not alone with this problem. LibreOffice for example can't probably be installed by many users because the binary isn't signed Apple-style. Many users will get an error message by OS X and just forget about LibreOffice …

Re: GPGTools – OpenPGP Tools for Apple OS X

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Post by vegardx » Tue, May 21, 2013, 8:04 PM UTC

tunesmith wrote: post #6

What's the best way to ensure faster turnaround when a new OS X version comes out? Is the constraint money, or is it more that they need more developers?

I used GPGTools before Mountain Lion and was very sad when the update to Mountain Lion broke it, and if I recall correctly it was because Apple more or less totally redid Mail.app and sandboxed it in a way that made it hard to integrate with. Seems like they have sorted this out now, and this should make it for a quicker turn around in the future.

Re: GPGTools – OpenPGP Tools for Apple OS X

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Post by Aloisius » Tue, May 21, 2013, 8:23 PM UTC

hackerboos wrote: post #5

Aloisius wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does it? I haven't noticed any problems.

Run `brew doctor` after installing.

Ahhh. I rarely run brew doctor. Warnings aren't the worst things in the world though and I don't think it is unreasonable that they stick libs in /usr/local/lib.

Re: GPGTools – OpenPGP Tools for Apple OS X

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Post by gnaffle » Tue, May 21, 2013, 8:29 PM UTC

chmars wrote: post #7

Great tool but who wants to way months after each major OS X release to use it (again)? GPGTools is not alone with this problem. LibreOffice for example can't probably be installed by many users because the binary isn't signed Apple-style. Many users will get an error message by OS X and just forget about LibreOffice …

Hopefully it'll be at least some time before the make such a big change to Mail.app. Remember it worked well for many releases before we got into the current situation.