[Cryptography Team] some more repository things

Chris Muller afunkyobject at yahoo.com
Sun Oct 23 18:43:52 CEST 2005


I can do it, but please clarify.  It sounds like all we need is to name ones
that are specific to any algorithm Cryptography-Base.  Right?

> Hi folks,
> I noticed that the package cutting 'Cryptography' and
> 'Cryptography-SHA256' does not work well with Monticello, since MC works
> with prefixes to decide which classes and methods belong into which
> package.
> Just had a chat with Cees on the IRC, and asked him about this. He said
> that this is a no-no and we should rather have packages 'Cryptography-*'
> for all our stuff, so that no single package name is a prefix of another.
> This also means that extension protocols must be renamed.
> Who can do this, and when? I can't do it this weekend, and probably not
> next week either, so someone else should probably go for it.
> 
> Cheers,
> Hans-Martin



More information about the Cryptography mailing list