Jim Meyering <j...@meyering.net> writes: > Thanks, Simon! I too am all for B64-formatted checksums.
Good, it is a trade-off between output readability and code complexity. Aligning 'sha*sum' with OpenBSD's 'sha*' tools would be nice, and base64 support is one missing piece. > You may want to coordinate with Pádraig. > I think he is planning a unification of the checksum-generating tools. Okay! > Your patches look fine. One nit: please drop the "Please" here :-) > > + print "\nPlease note that the SHA256 checksum is base64 encoded and not\n"; Thanks, I reworded it a bit further, but I'm not a native speaker so I appreciate improvements from others. + print "\nThe SHA256 checksum is base64 encoded and not hexadecimal,\n"; + print "which is the default for most checksum tools.\n\n"; /Simon
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