> On Dec 1, 2014, at 4:25 AM, holger krekel <hol...@merlinux.eu> wrote: > > Hi Donald, > > On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 19:43 -0500, Donald Stufft wrote: >>> On Nov 13, 2014, at 9:21 PM, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: >>> >>> Starting a new thread with more explicit details at Richard’s request. >>> Essentially the tl;dr here is that we'll switch to using sha2 (specifically >>> sha256). >> >> Ping? >> >> Are we OK to make this change? > > sorry i didn't get back earlier. Before the minor release of devpi-server > last week i tried for two hours to change devpi-server to accomodate > your planned pypi.python.org checksum changes. > > I found the change cannot easily be done without changes to the underlying > database schema and thus needs a major new release of devpi-server because > an export/import cycle is needed. When doing that i also want to do > some internal cleanup related to name normalization (and also relating > to recent pypi.python.org changes) but i need a week or two i guess to > do that. However i now think that if you do the pypi.python.org checksum > change it shouldn't directly break devpi-server but it would remove > checksum checking. I'd rather like to have a new major devpi-server > release out when you do the change. Is it ok for you to wait a bit still? > > best, > holger
Yes, we can wait a bit. I was just going over my TODO list and making sure things weren’t getting lost in the shuffle. --- Donald Stufft PGP: 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
