[Enigmail] Enigmail v0.96 Beta Released

[Patrick Brunschwig]

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Charly Avital wrote:
> Patrick Brunschwig wrote the following on 6/29/09 3:19 PM:
>> I have created a beta version of Enigmail v0.96 for Thunderbird 2.0.x
>> and SeaMonkey 1.1.x. The release has several new features and
>> enhancements, and contains a lot of fixed bugs. In particular, I tried
>> to address all known bugs that can be fixed without rewriting major
>> parts of Enigmail or Thunderbird.
>>
>> The (unsigned) beta release can be found here, I expect to create an
>> official v0.96 release in 1-2 weeks:
>> <http://mozilla-enigmail.org/download/release/0.96b/>
> 
> Hi,
> MacOS 10.5.7-MacBook Intel C2Duo MacGPG 2.0.12 TB 2.0.0.21
> 
> downloaded and installed 'enigmail-0.96b3-tb+sm.xpi'.
> 
> Using the Wizard, at the completion of the process, I got a warning
> "couldn't find gpg-agent needed for your 2.0.12". I couldn't launch
> OpenPGP Preferences, neither from the Menu, nor from Tools.


For GnuPG v2.0.x gpg-agent (or something similar) is mandatory -- but
that's not changed since Enigmail v0.95.7. It's a requirement by GnuPG,
that Enigmail can't overcome. If no gpg-agent is already running, then
it must be installed in the same directory as gpg itself.

> After launching the Wizard, choose the Manual installation, which
> apparently completed. After quitting and relaunching TB, couldn't open
> "About OpenPGP", nor Preferences (from the Menu, from Tools).

What happened instead? I doubt that just "nothing" happened; I would
expect at least some error in a log file or the Thunderbird Error
Console ....

> I also downloaded the source code, but couldn't find a way to compile it.
> The usual process, cd to the archive, then ./configure does not work,
> because there's no 'configure' component in the source code.
> I tried to do something with Xcode, but no success.

Well, compiling Enigmail is not a trivial task -- and never has been.
It's certainly a lot more than ./configure && make. In particular it
requires a good part of Thunderbird to be compiled. See
<http://enigmail.mozdev.org/download/source.php> for details.

- -Patrick
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