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GpgMEpp - C++ bindings/wrapper for gpgme
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Based on KF5gpgmepp
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GPGMEpp is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
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modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
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License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
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version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
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GPGME++ is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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GNU Library General Public License for more details.
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You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public License
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along with GPGME++; see the file COPYING.LIB. If not, write to the
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Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
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Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
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Overview
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--------
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GpgMEpp is a C++ wrapper (or C++ bindings) for the GnuPG project's
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gpgme (GnuPG Made Easy) library, version 0.4.4 and later.
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It is fairly complete, with some minor things still missing (in
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particular, the key edit interface).
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The design principles of this library are as follows:
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1. A value-based interface (most clases are implicitly shared)
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2. Callbacks are replaced by C++ interfaces (classes with only
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abstract methods).
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3. No exceptions are thrown
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4. There is (as yet) no explicit support for multi-threaded use
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(other than what gpgme itself provides; most notably the
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refcounting for implicit sharing is not thread-safe)
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5. To avoid binary incompatible interface changes, we make
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extensive use of the d-pointer pattern and avoid virtual
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methods; any polymorphism present is already provided by gpgme
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itself, anyway (see e.g. Data). A notable exception of the
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no-virtuals rule is the use of abstract classes to cover
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C-callbacks.
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GpgME was originally developed as part of the KDEPIM community
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in KDE 4 it was part of kdepimlibs/gpgme++ for KF5 Gpgme++ was
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renamed to KF5GpgMEpp and moved into it's own repository.
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License
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-------
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This library is licensed under the GNU Library General Public
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License (LGPL), just as gpgme is. We feel that using a different
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license than the one gpgme itself uses doesn't make sense.
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