why no gpg-agent for Cygwin?

[Marco Atzeri]

On 04/09/2015 12:31, Andrew Schulman wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 03, 2015 at 03:20:45PM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote:
>>> So, why isn't there a gpg-agent for Cygwin?  Any hope of having one some
>>> day?
>>
>> I suspect simply because nobody has packaged one, and somebody has to do
>> the work to make it available.  I doubt anyone would object to you
>> submitting an Intent To Package per https://cygwin.com/setup.html.
>
> If that's the only reason, I could certainly look at packaging it.  I guess I'd
> like to hear from Marco first though, the gnupg maintainer, to tell us if there
> isn't some other reason.
>
>

for what I know gpg-agent belongs to GnuPG > 2.0
while we have only the classic gnupg-1.4.19

If I remember right GnuPG > 2.0 requires memory protection
features that do not exist on cygwin.
But I could be wrong.

Regards
Marco

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