Re: [Evolution] first bug report gpg hang

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

> Do you have everyone's keys in your keyring to whom you are encrypting
> to? If not, it might be that gpg is prompting evolution for more data
> but evolution doesn't have any way of knowing it's being prompted for
> more information. This might be the cause of the hang. So make sure that
> you have everyone in your keyring and that you have signed their keys,
> etc.
>
> I've got to figure out a better way of doing this but to be honest I
> have no idea what I can do.


Surely there is like a gpg api?  It can't all be done through a binary
can it?  If that *is* the only interface, then we are going to have to
open a dialogue with the program and try and talk to it (but that would
suck in the extreme).  At the very least we need a timeout to terminate
it and report what it said to us, we cannot have it just hang.

> > Finally a question. Is there a scripting interface or something like
> > that to evo available, as I e.g. would like to see all
> > birthdays/anniversaries in my calendar and would eventually try to do
> > this via a script.
>
> There are CORBA interfaces to most of the components, though I think
> that the mailer component is a bit lacking currently.


And you can use corba stuff from many scripting languages these days.