Re: [Server-devel] ditch all *.img.md5.txt ? (*.img.zip.md5.txt far more useful)

On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 6:46 PM, James Cameron wrote: > Too much noise is a good argument. > > Solutions can be; > > 0. omit the checksums if they are used less than 10% of the time > (check your logs), > > 1. use one file to contain all checksums, e.g. MD5SUMS, > > 2. don't

Re: [Server-devel] ditch all *.img.md5.txt ? (*.img.zip.md5.txt far more useful)

Too much noise is a good argument. Solutions can be; 0. omit the checksums if they are used less than 10% of the time (check your logs), 1. use one file to contain all checksums, e.g. MD5SUMS, 2. don't use Apache indexes, but instead use a script or template to generate friendly HTML with

[Server-devel] ditch all *.img.md5.txt ? (*.img.zip.md5.txt far more useful)

Tim's argument that *.img.md5.txt creates too much noise within http://xsce.org/downloads is fair (e.g. in future http://download.iiab.io) since we already have *.img.zip.md5 to verify downloads. Of course we can't please everyone, but there's a lot of redundancy built in already, and checking