GPG about a-shell HOT 6 OPEN

For git, we already have lg2, which is based on libgit2, and that works. But "git with gpg" only works with the original git, not with any of the clones (neither gix nor libgit2).

Projects written in Rust fail at cross-compiling more often than not (because they depend on crates that depend on crates and somewhere at the bottom there is a crate that assumes the word is either Unix or Windows). So far, there has been only one project written in Rust that I could cross-compile to WebAssembly, ripgrep, and even that one required editing the code in several places (out of dozens of attempts).

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But "git with gpg" only works with the original git, not with any of the clones (neither gix nor libgit2)

Thanks, it's unfortunate that neither gix nor libgit2 support gpg.

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I'll have a look, but that sounds difficult: both git and gpg are GNU-licensed products, so they cannot be embedded in an AppStore release, they would have to be compiled to WebAssembly, and WebAssembly is not that good with network-based interactions.

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For git, you can consider gix, it is a library written in Rust, with low level API.

I think you'd able to compile to to wasm without filesystem, network access or process spawning using low-level API.

from a-shell.

Projects written in Rust fail at cross-compiling more often than not (because they depend on crates that depend on crates and somewhere at the bottom there is a crate that assumes the word is either Unix or Windows).

Yeah many do have that problem, but IIRC gix just fixed a cross compilation error related to wasm, so gix does care about that.

They also have a few configurable features, which could disable features relying on supporting network/threading.

from a-shell.

I'll have a look, but that sounds difficult: both git and gpg are GNU-licensed products, so they cannot be embedded in an AppStore release, they would have to be compiled to WebAssembly, and WebAssembly is not that good with network-based interactions.

Ok, thank you so much for the effort

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