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From: "Miles Gould" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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I was actually thinking of Windows, with its semi-hidden filename
truncation to 8.3 characters - especially likely to cause problems if
the names had a common prefix. But if the existing behaviour is to name
the file script_pl_{md5 hash}, then we're already running into this
issue and surviving it, so it doesn't matter.
Actually, the existing behaviour is to suffix script_pl_ with the first 4
characters only of the md5 hash. Having a suffix consisting of the entire
hash is, in effect, untested (though it doesn't pose any problems for me on
Windows Vista).
But using 4,5,6, and 7 characters (instead of 4,8,16 and 32) seems quite
sane to me, and is an easy change to implement, so I intend to go with that
change (unless someone points out a good reason against doing that).
Cheers,
Rob
