[oe] OEDEM 2009 summary: Death to checksums.ini?

[Holger Hans Peter Freyther]

On Wednesday 11 November 2009 10:17:42 Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 09:44 +0100, Holger Hans Peter Freyther wrote:
> > This will create an even bigger mess. Sometimes you need to download two
> > things, this means you will end up with A_MD5SUM, B_MD5SUM, A_SHASUM,
> > B_SHASUM. The main problem with the above is that in contrast to a well
> > defined checksums.ini file we will end up with n-variants of the above
> > trick.
> 
> The number of recipes where multiple items need to be downloaded and
> checksummed is small: this is a tiny minority of the total.  So,
> although I agree that this case will become more ugly, I don't think
> this is going to be a common enough problem that it will represent a
> very big deal.

It depends. Currently the instructions to update the checksums.ini are 
straight forward and branch free, with the above it is impossible to write a 
branch free documentation that everyone can follow. :)


PS: Let me come up with a patch introducing the new variables..