[PATCH 1 of 2] sha1sum.py: sha1sum for platforms which do not provide it

[Christian Ebert]

* Lee Cantey on Monday, October 31, 2011 at 11:25:59 -0700
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Christian Ebert <blacktrash at gmx.net> wrote:
>> * Greg Ward on Monday, October 31, 2011 at 09:02:36 -0400
>>> On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Christian Ebert <blacktrash at gmx.net> wrote:
>>>> # HG changeset patch
>>>> # User Christian Ebert <blacktrash at gmx.net>
>>>> # Date 1320001536 -3600
>>>> # Branch stable
>>>> # Node ID 96211cffd4d151f9c1fb34d38bb67eba5b92b944
>>>> # Parent  87248de091352f746e8cd1cee01af29138c8e443
>>>> sha1sum.py: sha1sum for platforms which do not provide it
>>> 
>>> I give a reluctant +1 on this.
>>> 
>>> Reluctant because I think we should refactor md5sum.py and sha1sum.py
>>> and have a single script for hashing in the test suite.
>> 
>> I completely agree.
>> 
>>> +1 because now is not the time for refactoring. Now is the time for fixing.
> 
> Agreed.  I thought that was the decision last week.

Ah, I'm very sorry, of course your patch should go in then.
> 
>> Well, it hasn't gone in yet. I also was insecure how much we can
>> change because of the copyright.
>> 
>> I'm completely uneducated wrt the differences between md5 and sha
>> - could we just use the existing md5sum.py for test-lfconvert.t?
>> Or is md5 not secure enough in this case?
> 
> The use of SHA1 is to match the extension which uses SHA1 hashes to
> test identity.

Thanks for clarifying.

c
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