Hi All,
I share your opinion, but as you probably red in my last posting the
available MD5 implementations are not performing well enough for using them.
I used the RFC reference implementation coded in JScript and its really slow,
so I decided to just use an external program which works really fast as its
written in C. Using an external program is easy, as we can use any kind of
checksum checking when its available as command line program. I will try your
link, and report my opinions.
I looked at this a couple of weeks ago - my big problem was being entirely
unable to read binary files in JScript. (Any hints welcome!)
My opinion is that in this sort of project, speed isn't really an issue. I
install packages and maintain packages on lots of machines and really
don't care if it takes a while: I can get a coffee or do something else
while it finishes. If we can do the job natively in JScript, I think that
would be easier from the point of view of distribution.
Perhaps we could provide a wpkg-config.xml file in the same directory
which would contain preferences:
<wpkg-conf>
<option "md5">
<option-type name="external" value="true" />
<option-type name="command" value="\\server\share\utils\md5sum.exe
/makesum %s" />
</option>
</wpkg-conf>
If this file exists, we read it and parse it. The options above, for
example, might direct wpkg to over-ride a built in MD5 function with the
executable on the share called with some appropriate arguments. This might
be useful for other things - the default mode for wpkg to run without
command line arguments, perhaps.
Despite this, I don't understand why windows still doesn't have any
native MD5 implementation. Any unix has it on board.
Seconded.
Maybe someone wants to port wpkg to C# which has an MD5CryptoProvider
as I've seen on the web...
Possibly! Sounds like hard work to me though.
Just an idea,
Frank
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