> Hyrum K Wright wrote: >> What's driving this discussion is this: Up until this point in the >> Ev2 shims we've been supplying a NULL base checksum for apply >> textdelta, which the receivers have dutifully ignored. However, when >> the Ev2 shims attempt to be honest about the fact that they are using >> the empty stream for the text base, the receivers start complaining, >> because that's not what they expected---even though the end result is >> the same. In essence, all these checks are returning false positives, >> which is extremely unpleasant. >> >> I don't know that there is an easy way around this, since by the time >> we're translated from Ev2->delta-editor, we don't have the original >> text base, or its checksum, available to us. We have the full text, >> which is the reason the new text base is the empty stream: it's the >> only one we need. >> >> Does that make any sense?
Yes that makes sense. (Sorry I got sidetracked when I thought you were saying the producer should be able to choose any arbitrary base.) - Julian
