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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