According to http://www.apache.org/dev/release-distribution.html#sigs-and-sums .sha is actually required:
"An SHA checksum SHOULD also be created and MUST be suffixed .sha. The checksum SHOULD be generated using SHA512." I find the extension a little unhelpful personally, but ok.. :) Robbie On 7 March 2017 at 17:11, Robbie Gemmell <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > I noted in the qpid-python-1.36.0 vote thread that the .sha file > contained a sha256 checksum, this being in place of the historic .sha1 > checksum file. > > I'm curious what people think about the name relative to the contents? > I think .sha256 might be friendlier so that people know how to try and > verify it implicitly from its name? > > I mainly ask as I think I'll include one for the proton-j-0.18.0 > release im about to cut, and am trying to settle on a name for it. > > Robbie --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
