[Gnu-arch-users] Re: sha1 support

[Robert Collins]

On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 10:32, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-01-18 at 18:30, Tom Lord wrote:
> 
> > Because it's not too hard to do and spares users of 1.2pre0 (and
> > 1.2pre1 as soon as the list is back up) from a continuity error while
> > tracking the head or maintaining their own archives.
> 
> We can assure an easier transition by releasing a tla 1.2pre2 which
> contains the newer parser, but doesn't generate sha1 sums.  This is
> incredibly easy to do: just wrap #if 0 around the part that does
> safe_write ("sha1 ...);.
> 
> Then the final tla 1.2 will do the generation.  And we all only convert
> our archives once tla 1.2 is out for real.

It's still a watershed. The previous argument applies. We'd have to wait
for everyone to upgrade before enabling this. Fixing the code  is
cleaner.

Rob

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