On Mar 16, 2021, at 16:16, Gregory P. Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > The benefit of listing the sha256 for files is that it prevents this question > coming up again and again because md5 is old and rightfully on the "never > use" list for many people. Even if there are situations where it is fine as > an effective improvement over a CRC.
I agree that the primary reason for making the change is to eliminate these kinds of discussions :) In fact, there has been an open issue on the python.org tracker for some time to do just that; see https://github.com/python/pythondotorg/issues/1227. It will also require co-ordination with release managers as we are the ones who populate the data, if anyone feels motivated to dig into the webside code. -- Ned Deily [email protected] -- [] _______________________________________________ python-committers mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-committers.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/XORTTVQ23N76DK2W6NAXW5M6NW52EPQU/ Code of Conduct: https://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
