On 09.07.2013, at 09:06, Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.duca...@inria.fr> wrote:

> Max I added you to the Pharo team.

Great, thanks.

> So now you should be able to commit to the inbox (soon it should be fixed).
> Then I tried to merge (I read the beginning ogf the article and this is a 
> nice article) but 
> I could not because Fuel-marcus766 is not found. May be my image is not 
> recent enough.

Fuel-MarcusDenker.766 is the default Fuel version in the latest 3.0 (curl 
get.pharo.org/30 | bash). I did all my work in there.

> I should probably add a repository but I could not find it.
> 
> 
>> As promised (a very long while ago) I moved all the checksum code to a 
>> dedicated hiearchy (see https://pharo.fogbugz.com/default.asp?5468). The 
>> thing I'm most proud of is the CRC class which implements Ross Williams's 
>> "RockSoft" parameterized CRC caculation model (http://www.ross.net/crc/).
>> 
>> Currently there are still two plugin primitives (used by the Compression 
>> package) which I simply moved to the new Checksum hierarchy. When I 
>> originally wrote the CRC class I wasn't aware of NativeBoost. Today I saw 
>> that there are two methods NativeBoost offers for crc32 calculations. I 
>> don't have time to look in to that but I just wanted to put the idea out 
>> there that with the checksum code now all in one place, we might be able to 
>> perform all checksum calculations through NB (and get rid of the ZipPlugin 
>> :) ).
>> 
>> Any thoughts?
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Max
> 
> 


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