jettero has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Where's a good place to say:

Hey, I'll paypal $30 to the first person to make a resonably useable Crypt::GPGME module? I'm not feeling terribly selfish. I wish to d/l it from CPAN.

There used to be cool sites for this sort of thing, but today I can't find a single one.

If there's no such place, then I'm asking here. And I'm asking others to join me. ;)

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Re: Where to pay to Play?
by fokat (Deacon) on Aug 23, 2002 at 15:27 UTC
    Perhaps here. I would say that if you offer to donate those $30 to the monastery through the Offering Plate and explain a bit better what do you expect Crypt::GPGME to do, a few monks would be willing to help you out.

    Just my $0.02...

    Regards

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      I don't think I'd want to explain it... anymore than I explain anything else I d/l from CPAN. I just wanna -e 'install Crypt::GPGME', read the man page for a second and move on.

      that was the whole point of paying someone... By the time I find out precisely what I want, I may as well just write it myself. It really probably isn't all that hard to write.

      I betcha nearly anyone could crank it out one saturday, and I might, if I didn't have so much neverwinter nights to do ...

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Re: Where to pay to Play?
by fglock (Vicar) on Aug 23, 2002 at 17:31 UTC

    In gnupg-devel Mark wrote:

    Mark Hofstetter mark.hofstetter@univie.ac.at 
Thu Jul 5 09:22:02 2001 

Hi,

Has anybody out there started writing a perl-interface 
for gpgme?
Anyway I would like to contribute/start coordinating
writing such a module!
mails either to the list or to mh.zid@univie.ac.at

have a nice day

Mark

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Re: Where to pay to Play?
by fglock (Vicar) on Aug 23, 2002 at 17:49 UTC

    It seems that these people gave up trying to do it: http://gpg.sourceforge.net/

    Mmm. It looks like they were trying to use Gpg, not Gpgme.

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Re: Where to pay to Play?
by fglock (Vicar) on Aug 23, 2002 at 17:13 UTC

    I'd be willing to help. I have no experience with using C libraries with Perl however.

    Did you check if there is something like that in Sourceforge already?

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      I did not check source forge. I did check from it with 'i /gpg/' from the cpan shell.

      I got ahold of the crypt::gpg author and was considering writing it myself. I do have experience writing c and c++ perl modules. I'd even count myself good at it.

      it just suddenly occured to me today to wonder if I could just rent a coder... In fact, someone reccomended just that on K5.

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