FreeBSD is fine with no estreams updates to the python bindings or just Jasper's update or just my previous update with the underscores, but not this attenmpt to cover both OS X and Ubuntu.

Right, which is exactly the issue I was trying to solve by adding both versions.

Assuming dirmngr is just connecting to localhost on one of the following ports: 9050, 9150 or 8118 (maybe) then an interim workaround could be achieved with ncat (or netcat, or nc ... but ncat is like those two on steroids and will happily pass a shell exec function to connect to the remote host with openssl too (which may be preferred depending on the size of the LAN).

Discussion on the #python IRC channel last night with another experienced SWIG developer (of a proprietary and unnamed software project) has provided ass itional evidence supporting the theory that the cause of the problems with getting the bindings to run on Windows systems is indeed directly caused by the fact that Windows users are compiling GPGME and the bindings with a different compiler and runtime than those used to compile whichever version of Python they have obtained from elsewhere.

Alternatively, if they wish to keep using the Python installer from python.org then they would need to drop MSys2 in favour of the same version of Microsoft Visual Studio used to compile the that specific version of Python with and use it to compile every part of the GnuPG stack, up to and including GPGME.

If that is indeed the case and the theory regarding runtime conflicts, currently under investigation in T3505 and T4086, also proves to be true; then MSys2 users and developers will need to cease using the precompiled versions of Python available from python.org and compile their own version of Python copy with MSys2.

Windows 10 was obtained last week and the process of preparing a Windows build env began earlier today.

This question and some of the answers to it on StackOverflow indicate some of the difficulties in getting SWIG generated Python modules to install at all. Essentially, though the easiest method currently available without extensive customisation of the setup.py file which would need to be done for both Python 2.7 and Python 3.x is to run /path/to/specific/pythonX.Y setup.py build and then follow that with /path/to/specific/pythonX.Y setup.py install and then follow that with renaming lang/python/build to a relevant directory and/or path name which indicates which version of python was used and the location or path it is in.

While performing some initial investigation regarding observed discrepancies between compiling GPGME directly and the subsequent SWIG static object for T4086, confirmed the relative ease by which multiple installations would be achievable if performed as a post-build process. This would have the added advantage of being more readily customisable by package maintainers downstream and not just for Debian, it could be made to work more easily with other distributions or other posix systems too.

Since first observing this … annoyance … the following updates have been made: Emacs has been upgraded to version 26.1, Org-Mode has been updated multiple times, including significant changes to Babel and the XHTML export, python-mode has been updated, multiple variations on the source blocks have been attempted, the document has had any and all tabs stripped out and replaced, plus each code block has been refactored and re-entered multiple times.

Even after running additional tests like converting the file to reStructuredText, fixing any remaining possible errors and then converting back, the result is that org-mode still appears to save the source correctly, but cannot export it in a correct format with babel. Certainly not to XHTML and likely not to any other format either. So that's definitely a bug.

Massive overhaul of the entire document performed in this commit.

Slight addendum: MSYS2 isn't even part of MinGW at all, see the commentary in this bug report. Nor is it a part of Cygwin, but apparently it is a part of a fork of Cygwin.

Not only is this not supported, but I've now confirmed that MSYS2 isn't even supported by its own project and they direct all downloaders to their MinGW-get installer.

Though a CFFI/ABI solution may be the only option, it would still be preferable to get SWIG working under Windows. The reasons for this are many, but not least of which would include not needing to duplicate effort to accommodate Windows, no functionality mismatch due to using the Windows version and not needing to implement every function manually since CFFI can't generate low level bindings the same way that SWIG does.

Patch committed to master in commit 5a80e755008bbb3f4c7f91ffccd38f26cd8b3960

Not to worry, we've all been pretty busy of late.