GnuPG 1.4 for OS X / macOS

R. Bag ratbag at gmx.com
Fri Dec 6 02:18:42 CET 2024


> If something is important
> enough to affect how they communicate, don't assume: ask.

We asked. They are reluctant to do any "installs" just in order
to evaluate our business proposition.

> My MacBook didn't come with GnuPG installed.
> I had to do that myself.

Understood. We would love for Apple to have gpg1 as part of
"standard app repertoire" - just as some/many Linux distributions
do. That, however, is something we can neither influence nor
hope for.

> If you have a workflow dependency on GnuPG, you
> are insisting your users install it.

See above. There is quite a bit of difference between
installing an application, and downloading a trusted binary
with no dependencies and executing it in the shell.

BTW., all we what to do here is to use the same model that we
know (based on experience) works perfectly well for MS Windows
and Linux users, and make it available to Apple users.

R. Bag



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