> Most GPG "libraries" in languages like Python and Ruby are just wrappers around the GPG command-line, because there is no proper library. IIUC this is intent

> Most GPG "libraries" in languages like Python and Ruby are just wrappers around the GPG command-line, because there is no proper library. IIUC this is intentional design of GPG 1.x vs GPG 2.x: the former is statically linked binaires for "security reasons" while the latter is a shared lib (libgcrypt) + binaries with exactly the same features.