[Gpg4win-devel] [Announce] GPGME 1.1.7 released

[Marcus Brinkmann]

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Igor Belyi wrote:
> Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
>> We are pleased to announce version 1.1.7 of GnuPG Made Easy,
>>   
> I have a small comment regarding one Windows specific undocumented
> change between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7.
> 
> While investigating why the new gpgme returns me "GPGME: Invalid crypto
> engine" error I found out that
> now instead of spawing gpg.exe directly it relies on gpgme-w32spawn.exe
> being installed with GnuPG.

Yes, this is to fix important bugs that can occur in a multi-threaded application.

> The latest gpg4win does not have this program and as a result,
> gpgme-1.1.7 can't be used with it at all.

Can you be more specific about the gpg4win version that fails for you?  We added
gpgme-w32spawn.exe to gpg4win when we updated the gpgme version in gpg4win, the
same time we added the bug fix.  Or are you mix-and-matching gpg4win with a
self-compiled gpgme?

> First, it would be nice to have that incompatibility documented.

It's of course documented in the ChangeLog.  The NEWS file contains only
user-visible changes, and this is transparent to the application developer.

There is no unusual incompatibility here.  GPGME continues to be backwards
compatible as advertised.

> Second, it would be nice if gpgme falls back to spawning gpg directly in
> case gpgme-w32spawn.exe is not

We want people to use the fixed code ;)

> available at least for couple of next versions unless there's a very
> good reason for it not to.

Thanks,
Marcus