On Tue, 27 Dec 2016 12:01:01 +0100 Laslo Hunhold <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Mar 2016 18:59:24 +0200 > Mattias Andrée <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey Mattias, > > what justifies the existence of base16(1), base32(1) and > base64(1)? I think there need to be good reasons, given > it would add almost 500 lines of code to maintain to > sbase. > > I think I am not the only one here who really appreciates > your work on sbase. So, maybe in the future, if you plan > on working something, maybe you could post your ideas > here, so you are not wasting time on things that get > rejected anyway. > > Cheers > > Laslo > I cannot remember right now, but think it's necessary for sbase (but that doesn't make it less code to maintain). But I guess base64(1) can be used for obfuscation or escaping binary data in text files.
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