Re: GPG support on Windows and OS/X? (Was RE: svn commit: r1005788 - /subversion/branches/gpg-agent-password-store/subversion/libsvn_subr/config_file.c)

On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 10:50:13AM -0400, C. Michael Pilato wrote:
> On 10/08/2010 10:41 AM, Hyrum K. Wright wrote:
> > Plus, we haven't really heard much demand for it, anyway.
>
> ...but yeah, is anybody asking for this?

I want it. I think many unix geeks not using gnome or kde would, too.

As of today, I'm still typing my svn passwords.
I've been keeping secret plans about looking into creating a PGP-based
password store, and I'm glad Senthil is picking this up.

My idea was to use gpgme, but that's a library. Whereas the gpg agent is
another program. So if support for gpg-agent was enabled at compile time,
svn can check for it at runtime and just ignore the PGP store if it cannot
contact an agent. This is simpler than using dlopen() to load a library,
and can also be supported in statically-linked builds of Subversion (not
every OS in use today supports shared libraries on all supported platforms).

I see a lot of value in having this.

Stefan
Received on 2010-10-08 19:16:22 CEST