"Joachim Strömbergson" <joac...@strombergson.com> wrote in message news:mailman.2422.1246418400.8015.python-l...@python.org...
> Even so, choosing md5 in 2009 for something that (hopefully) will be > used in years is a bad design decision. It creates a dependency for to > an algorithm that all sensible recommendations point you to move away > from. Why not write the field as algorithm:value? e.g. sha1:8590b685654367e3eba70dc00df7e45e88c21da4 Installers can fallback to using hashlib.new(), so you can plug in a new algorithm without changing the PEP or the installer code.
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