Sorry for the delay, been busy. Please fight me wherever I am wrong, inform me 
wherever I am misunderstanding etc.

On Monday 24 May 2010 12:09:36 Martin Nyhus wrote:
> On Sat, 22 May 2010 17:17:41 Matthew Toseland wrote:
> > Did you have any specific structural changes you were thinking of as
> > a first step?
> 
> Except moving the FNP code, the only structural change I can think of
> right now is moving the block transfer code, but as you mention, it
> should wait until after the packet format is done. I haven't looked
> closely at the crypto code yet, so I might need to do something there.

Well can you give me a reasonable idea of what FNP code you are proposing to 
move? I am concerned that we not rewrite stuff unnecessarily?
> 
> > However, it will be necessary to keep support for old style bulk
> > transfers for quite some time because it is needed for Update Over
> > Mandatory to continue to work.
> 
> Hopefully the bulk transfer code will only be needed if we use
> FNP, and as long as the new packet format isn't merged before moving
> bulk transfer I think it should work out.
> 
Well yeah, when we have the new FNP, we will likely have a different big file 
transfer mechanism. But we'll need to support the old one for some time after 
that.
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