Re: Small patch to enable use of gpg-agent with pgg

[Simon Josefsson]

Katsumi Yamaoka <address@hidden> writes:

>>>>>> In <address@hidden> Simon Josefsson wrote:
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>> Katsumi Yamaoka <address@hidden> writes:
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>>> Emacs 20, 21 and XEmacs complain to use of make-network-process
>>> which isn't available.  To solve the problem, we may want to
>>> introduce it as dns.el does.
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>> Do those emacsen support socket processes?  If not, maybe we should
>> remove pgg-gpg-update-agent.
>
> Oops.  ISHIKAWA Mutsumi wrote (in Japanese) in
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> http://lists.debian.or.jp/debian-devel/200502/msg00007.html
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> that Emacs 21 doesn't support the communication passing the UNIX
> domain socket.  If we need to use it at all costs, we will have
> to use an external program which communicates with the agent
> process by way of the socket.

I think it is too complicated.  It is simpler to remove the function.
Sascha, what do you think?  People who enable pgg-gpg-use-agent
manually might be expected to make sure the agent really is running.