md5sum of drivers [was Re: PostgreSQL JDBC drivers]

From: Kris Jurka <books(at)ejurka(dot)com>
To: Jesper Pedersen <jesper(dot)pedersen(at)jboss(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-jdbc <pgsql-jdbc(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: md5sum of drivers [was Re: PostgreSQL JDBC drivers]
Date: 2008-11-17 21:23:15
Message-ID: 4921E0C3.3000905@ejurka.com
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Jesper Pedersen wrote:
>
> Could I get you to add a MD5SUM for each driver at the website (just like
> the 'other' database (http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/j/5.0.html)) ?
>
> That way people could identify the official JDBC drivers.
>

A md5sum is pretty worthless for us because we don't mirror the drivers
elsewhere. If the driver and the MD5 come from the same place you
aren't confirming anything because it's as easy to replace both as it is
to replace one.

Kris Jurka

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