Hi Keith, On IRC someone brought up an important point that the license of libmd is somewhat dodgy. Half the files have no copyright information at all, and some files are licenses such "for non-commercial use only" etc. So it seems that we have to rule out using this.
So it seems that there isn't really a good alternative library for sha1. How would you feel about a SHA1 implementation in Xorg, but enabled only by a configure switch or as a fallback option? This would mean that Xorg could finally be easily cross-compiled out of the box, bringing love and happiness to people everywhere :-) An alternative would be to maintain a separate SHA1 library but still hosted by freedesktop. It could be just another package that is included along with the xorg distribution. John 2008/9/23 Keith Packard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 17:32 +0100, John Tapsell wrote: > >> If you revert this patch, you make it not possible to cross-compile X, >> afaics. > > Sure, I'm not rejecting the notion of using other SHA1 implementations, > I'm only rejecting the plan of having X.org own one of its own. > > You could even offer to support a SHA1 implementation by yourself and > add code to X.org to use that. > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
