I should have said in a "few" small understandable packages.  They should
also be independently loadable or extremely clear about the order that they
should be loaded.  I think the original effort had problems because you had
to load core first before loading other packages that depended on it.  That
was clearly too complicated for some.  We finally decided to make one
package instead that would load.

Separating out code that is not really core cryptography into other packages
so that they do not have to be loaded does make sense to me.  We just need
to make sure that a single load will get people what they want. 

Ron Teitelbaum

> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org [mailto:squeak-
> dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Ron Teitelbaum
> Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 7:33 PM
> To: 'The general-purpose Squeak developers list'
> Subject: RE: MD5 for Squeak (was: Re: [squeak-dev] Re: Some question
> regarding portability)
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I think that works.  The basic separation from core and extra
functionality is a
> good move.  3 packages is better than dozens.  I know that Andreas also
> made a SqueakSSL repository which is specifically for TLS/SSL.  That
certainly
> works since it will get used there and fixed but it is also likely that
SSL will bit
> rot here if everyone is focused there.  It might make sense to move our
SSL
> and cert stuff to Andreas' repository (if there is anything still here
that is
> needed by developers that doesn't exist there and Andreas wants it, or
> include his package here with the rest)  and focus on Core functions here?
> 
> In general cleaning things up so that what we have posted works is a good
> idea.  If we can get things loaded by default, and have other things
loadable
> in small understandable packages, then that works for me too.
> 
> Other thoughts?
> 
> Ron Teitelbaum
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org [mailto:squeak-
> > dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Levente Uzonyi
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 5:49 PM
> > To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
> > Subject: MD5 for Squeak (was: Re: [squeak-dev] Re: Some question
> > regarding portability)
> >
> > There was a plan to add the whole Cryptography package (split to three
> > packages) to the Trunk. Some older versions are waiting in the Inbox
> > (see CryptoCore, CryptoCerts and CryptoExtras). IIRC this process is
> > stalled because the proper renaming of the packages didn't happen
> > (Cryptography instead of Crypto). If the renaming is done, then Squeak
> > will have a
> working
> > MD5 implementation out of the box.
> >
> > Another solution is to grab the MD5 implementation from WebClient
> > (which is probably the same as in Croquet, since it uses the
> > CroquetPlugin if available).
> >
> > What do you think?
> >
> >
> > Levente
> 
>