For Clarity: I meant the or to be an exclusive or - that is that we should choose only one of the formats..
Rob === ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 11:28 PM Subject: RFC: setup.ini change > I'd like to change this: > install: release/bash/bash-20000901.tar.bz2 276403 > source: release/bash/bash-20000901-src.tar.bz2 1892899 > > to > > install: release/bash/bash-20000901.tar.bz2 276403 > 158044165a04791968a7e7fc8daaef9e > source: release/bash/bash-20000901-src.tar.bz2 1892899 > 158044165a04791968a7e7fc8daaef9f > > or > > install: release/bash/bash-20000901.tar.bz2 276403 > install-md5: 158044165a04791968a7e7fc8daaef9e > source: release/bash/bash-20000901-src.tar.bz2 1892899 > source-md5: 158044165a04791968a7e7fc8daaef9f > > I don't care which we choose. My preference is the first one - it will > keep the files smaller. Either will cause setup.exe to barf when first > introduced. Likewise for third party parsers that are ... pedantic. > > To help deal with this I suggest the following approach: > with the new version I want to release, we include the new format ini > parser, but do nothing with the data. Then we can introduce features to > use it at our leisure. > > Any preference folk? > > Rob > >
