[OTR-users] Pretty-please standardize OTR signature storage, per OS.
Paul Wouters
paul at cypherpunks.ca
Fri Sep 6 23:26:55 EDT 2013
On Fri, 6 Sep 2013, subharo at hushmail.com wrote:
> What if the OTR project had a published *Standard*, saying where
> and how OTR keys should be stored (including filesystem permissions
> that should apply), for every OS where OTR is currently in use (and
> there aren't that many of them). Then the likes of Jitsi, Pidgin,
> and Gagim could all refer to that one standardized, known folder in
> common (silently creating it if necessary).
I wonder why people made their own file format and why they did not
stick to the libotr/pidgin-otr format. Sure, we should pull it out
of ~/.purple/ and move it into ~/.otr/ but why the other changes?
> Unix: ~/.config/otr
.config? That seems too generic.
Paul
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