On 11/2/2018 3:47 PM, David Dombrowsky wrote: > I don't see a way to download `pinentry-curses` or `pinentry-tty` for > use with `gpg-agent` (using gnupg v2). Are these not maintained? Or > am I just looking at the wrong sources? > > In any case, I got pinentry-1.1.0 to compile against a cygwin-supplied > version of ncurses, and it mostly works (you still need to tell it to > not detach from the tty, not sure what's up with that). This is very > useful when signing git commits, and removing the need for a graphical > console just to input my gpg passphrase.
I see from [1] that pinentry-w32 exists which is a replacement for pinentry-curses which was in [2]. Now both of these are version 1.0.0. Based on [3] Marco Atzeri can give or point to reasoning. [1] https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=x86_64%2Fpinentry%2Fpinentry-1.0.0-2&grep=pinentry [2] https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=x86_64%2Fpinentry%2Fpinentry-1.0.0-1&grep=pinentry [3] https://cygwin.com/cygwin-pkg-maint -- cyg Simple -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
