Re: AdaGPGME (was Re: GnuPG binding?)

[Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@d2-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>]

Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
: Preben Randhol wrote:
: 
:> Andreas Almroth wrote:
:>> Hi all,
:>> 
:>> As there was some interest a couple of months back in an Ada binding to
:>> GnuPG, I thought I should let you know that there is a new version
:>> available at http://www.almroth.com/gpgme.
: 
:> Nice! Could you please make and archive that one could download either
:> zip or tar. Now all I find are html files which are a bit tricky to use.
: 
: My I suggest ww.sourceforge.net to avoid this kind of problems. Service
: there is great -  and you never forget the download link since it is done
: automaticly.

I would like to to add that giving to source forge could be made an
alternative, but not a replacement. Please keep the WWW a *net*work
of computers, stay in control of your software, take care of it 
yourselves, not just of program text. And provide good
linking, which is the art of hypertext. Don't be lazy here,
it helps us all, and reduces load on google :-)

Otherwise one gets the effect of one service being in control
of everything, which might turn out to be good or bad, sufficient
of deficient, dependable or not. Watch the new copyright efforts,
they might affect both you and your software, depending on where
and how it is published.
(After all, the existence of the savannah server is illustrative of
this.)

Seize your opportunities to stay independent.
Make your WWW emerge from self-incurred portality.
If I have sourceforge to organize my archives, "If I have a book to have
   understanding in place of me, a spiritual adviser to have a conscience
   for me, a doctor to judge my diet for me, and so on, I need not make
   any efforts at all. I need not think, so long as I can pay; others
   will soon enough take the tiresome job over for me."
                              -- I. Kant, What is Enlightenment

Georg
thinking that Dawn might be a nice replacement for Enlightenment