On 1 Apr., 20:44, Anthony Bryan <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Nils <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 29 Mrz., 08:39, Anthony Bryan <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> by 'last hash' do you mean the strongest one? or the last one listed?
>
> > I changed the code already to use the q-values dTa defines.
>
> ahh...

dTa! defines q-values for hashes, same type as with TCN. The highest q-
value wins (which is sha-512 followed by sha-256 atm). These are in
use with the want-digest implementation as well.
> >> looking forward to partial hashes. that will be so nice for big files.
>
> > I spent most of the day rewriting the verification code to use
> > threads, and implemented partial hashes in the progress.
> > However only the meta4 parser currently recognizes <ml4:pieces>.
> > <ml3:pieces> parsing is still missing.
>
> WOW, AWESOME!!! I've been hoping for that for a while, I've always
> thought it was important for a seamless metalink download experience
> for people.
>
> will it be possible to do <ml3:pieces> and backport this to 1.1.x? I
> don't want to get too greedy :), but a long time between major
> versions would mean a long time before people get to use this.

While it would be theoretically possible, I won't backport it. To big
of a risk to port a lot of infrastructure over... Rewritten hash
storage, completely rewritten verification implementation, new
localization strings (and we don't change l10n on stable branch if not
absolutely necessary, as this would require all localizers to update
their locales, etc...), code is not "mature" yet.

2.0 took (or better "takes") a lot time. But we're actually pretty
near a beta release now. I just finished the first draft of a change
log. I'll hopefully fix the last few bits over the easter weekend
(i.e. landing page texts #, and selector mode (sans keyboard
shortcut)), so that I can push that beta Monday evening.

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