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-A Short History of gpg bindings for Python
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-
-In 2002 John Goerzen released PyME; Python bindings for the GPGME
-module which utilised the current release of Python of the time
-(Python 2.2 or 2.3) and SWIG.  Shortly after creating it and ensuring
-it worked he stopped supporting it, though left his work available on
-his Gopher site.
-
-A couple of years later the project was picked up by Igor Belyi and
-actively developed and maintained by him from 2004 to 2008.  Igor's
-whereabouts at the time of this document's creation are unknown, but
-the current authors do hope he is well.  We're assuming (or hoping)
-that life did what life does and made continuing untenable.
-
-In 2014 Martin Albrecht wanted to patch a bug in the PyME code and
-discovered the absence of Igor.  Following a discussion on the PyME
-mailing list he became the new maintainer for PyME, releasing version
-0.9.0 in May of that year.  He remains the maintainer of the original
-PyME release in Python 2.6 and 2.7 (available via PyPI).
-
-In 2015 Ben McGinnes approached Martin about a Python 3 version, while
-investigating how complex a task this would be the task ended up being
-completed.  A subsequent discussion with Werner Koch led to the
-decision to fold the Python 3 port back into the original GPGME
-release in the languages subdirectory for non-C bindings.  Ben is the
-maintainer of the Python 3 port within GPGME.
-
-In 2016 PyME was renamed to "gpg" and adopted by the upstream GnuPG
-team.
-
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-The Annoyances of Git
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-
-As anyone who has ever worked with git knows, submodules are horrible
-way to deal with pretty much anything.  In the interests of avoiding
-migraines, that is being skipped with addition of PyME to GPGME.
-Instead the files will be added to the subdirectory, along with a copy
-of the entire git log up to that point as a separate file within the
-docs directory (old-commits.log).  As the log for PyME is nearly 100KB
-and the log for GPGME is approximately 1MB, this would cause
-considerable bloat, as well as some confusion, should the two be
-merged.  Hence the unfortunate, but necessary, step to simply move the
-files.  A regular repository version will be maintained should it be
-possible to implement this better in the future.
-
-
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-The Perils of PyPI
-------------------
-
-At the current time the Python 3 fork is not available via PyPI and
-the pip installer.  The recommended installation method is to follow
-the instructions in lang/py3-pyme/INSTALL.  This will build the
-necessary SWIG portions against the installed version of GPGME.