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Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 10:14:59 -0800
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Subject: Re: distfile belongs to?
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Ade Lovett wrote:
> 
> On Dec 05, 2006, at 13:59 , Doug Barton wrote:
> 
>> Wesley Shields wrote:
>>>> @comment DISTFILE:$filename:$size:$md5:$sha256
>>
>> I think that's good, the other information might come in handy down
>> the road. One thing you might want to consider is to put the md5 sum
>> at the end, since at some point down the road (maybe years from now,
>> but still ...) we're likely to drop md5 altogether.
> 
> Better still would be:
> 
> @comment DISTFILE:<filename>[':' <key>=<value>]*
> 
> eg:  DISTFILE:foo:SIZE=1234:MD5=...:SHA256=...
> 
> Relying on the specific position of an item in a delimited list almost
> always comes back and bites in painful spots later on down the way. 
> Minimal extra parsing required by consumers, and bits and pieces can be
> added/removed almost at will.

Personally I think this is overkill, but I won't argue against it.

Doug

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