Dear Christoph and Elena. Since the original wotsap is not maintained any more, but there are quite a few patches that could be applied and improvements that could be made, I decided to fork it and begin again its development here:
https://github.com/giomasce/wotsap Actually, I will not have a lot of time for it, but hopefully enough to fix the current most outstanding issues. I will also update the Debian package after this repository. Il 11/02/2013 20:36, Christoph Egger ha scritto: > Hi! > > The next .wot files (generated every weekend) should now work again > with wotsap, I've commented out the relevant part of the generation > script causing the problems. > > I'd still really appreciate if wotsap will be changed to handle .wot > files as the bzip2 compressed ar archives they are. Would also be cool > to figure out if we can add an extra component to the archive in a way > that does not break wotsap (as the problem with 4byte short IDs only is > still unresolved) or if we need to keep both formats in parallel (and as > a consequence have more freedom in how the "new" wots will look like) In theory it should, but there may be bug. I agree that wotsap should be updated to support longer IDs (and possibly also the whole fingerprint). If you want we can discuss the file format changes to support this, so that you can apply them on the .wot generator and I on wotsap. I see two main alternatives: * The file "keys" is extended to 8 or 20 bytes record. This is the sanest thing, but it is also backward-incompatible. The WOTVERSION number should be bumped to 0.3, old clients could not use new files and new clients could not use old files (unless they retain compatibility, of course). * Old files are kept as they are, but another file (e.g., "longkeys") is added, which contains 4 or 16 bytes record: each record is the part that must be pasted before the corresponding "keys" record in order to have the long ID. This is backward-compatible, but really ugly in itself. I tend to prefer the first alternative, especially if you can keep providing 0.2 .wots for some time after the change. Let me know what you think. Have a nice day, Giovanni. -- Giovanni Mascellani <g.mascell...@gmail.com> PhD Student - Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy http://poisson.phc.unipi.it/~mascellani
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