> There are a lot of wrappers for various languages. Almost most all of them call the gpg executable, and scrape it's input. This is crazy-town loony-toons.

> In theory, gpgme is supposed to be the solution.. But gpgme ends up calling the binary itself in many cases!

I've heard of this many times, but is there a good reason behind this? Are there extra security considerations behind making this a shared library? Is it just "not the focus of development" much in the same way that changing the GIMP UI was always "off the table" for the longest time because the devs didn't want to do it?