[Bug 23160] consider not requiring clients to generate checksums for file transfers

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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23160





--- Comment #5 from Jonny Lamb <jonny.lamb at collabora.co.uk>  2009-08-07 01:46:34 PST ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> 0 is nasty because we need every client implementation to implement every
> checksum known to man..

That's great, but unless you know of protocols hiding away that require misc
other hashes, I think in practice this isn't such a big deal besides the
annoying AIM algorithm.

(In reply to comment #3)
> It wouldn't be rocket science to have support for all of these in each of
> our current bindings (GLib, Qt4 and Python).

Right. This is what I've been proposing all along. In reality, every client
uses one of the three bindings. If they don't, then they've probably got bigger
problems.

Of course, option 0 is also the nicest in my book because it requires no
changes to existing clients (besides implementing this said hash). gabble and
salut will not need to change, and with a stable GNOME release coming up, this
is useful, perhaps.


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