Hello, Nick just said that it is a short term goal, that the MD5 stuff is working. Well, basically it should work, and the test cases are there. But as already discussed on this list, it can be necessary to use external tools (like md5sum on linux) to generate the md5 hash. I have right now really no experience with pretty large files (say 10-15M) and if the Java algorithm can handle this fast enough. You don't want to wait up until the MD5 hash is generated and write 2 programs in the meantime, right? Anyway, somebody stated that maven just uses a hook, so that everybody can use there own tool. In my opinion it is better to use just one tool (Java) for this, but like I stated, there could be a performance problem, as well as a algorighm problem (means: handles java the md5 hash the same way as FreeBSD and Linux?).
What do you think?
