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[Python-Dev] PEP 376 : Changing the .egg-info structure

[Python-Dev] PEP 376 : Changing the .egg-info structure [Python-Dev] PEP 376 : Changing the .egg-info structureP.J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Fri May 15 19:52:34 CEST 2009
At 08:32 AM 5/15/2009 +0200, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote:
>Agreed. Within FreeBSD's ports the installed package registration 
>gets a MD5 hash per file recorded. Size is less interesting though, 
>since essentially this information is encapsulated within the hash. 
>Remove one byte from the file and your hash is already different.

Which also means that in that case you can skip computing the 
MD5.  The size allows you to easily notice an overwrite/corruption 
without further processing. 

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