15.4 Development

Bigloo’s OpenPGP implementation only exposes few library functions. As a consequence some features are not accessible. The key-management system is very rough, and there are no means to inspect messages in more detail. It should be possible to expose or implement many of those missing features with little effort. The most time-consuming part is generally designing a clean API and the testing/debugging of new features: when something goes wrong it can take a huge amount of time to find the reason.

Developers interested in improving Bigloo’s OpenPGP library can print a huge amount of debugging information by enabling the debug-macro in util.scm. Bigloo’s OpenPGP implementation is not designed for speed and takes no shortcuts. The debugging output can therefore be used to follow the specification of RFC 4880 (or 2440).

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