[FYI] Development of GnuPG for OS X discontinued

[Pyromania]

On Wed, May 28 2025, Ralph Seichter via Gnupg-users <gnupg-users at gnupg.org> wrote:

> * Daniel Brandes via Gnupg-users:

>> How does that affect third-party implementations like GPGtools and
>> Thunderbird on a Mac?

> It does not affect them. GnuPG for OS X / macOS was a standalone build
> of the official GnuPG and accompanying libraries (each from source), not
> something used as part of third party software. At least nobody ever
> mentioned such a use to me.

> As I noted in the Sourceforge project retirement notice, similar
> binaries are, as of 2025, available via several package managers which
> support macOS (e.g. Nix, MacPorts and Homebrew). In that sense,
> "development discontinued" is certainly a misleading description. I
> retired one particular method of building and distributing GnuPG for
> macOS, but that does not impede the development of GnuPG for the
> platform. I am not and have not been a member of the GnuPG developer
> team.

Didn’t see that before asking my question, I got my answer, now.

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