On Mar 16, 2021, at 16:16, Gregory P. Smith <greg@krypto.org> wrote:
The benefit of listing the sha256 for files is that it prevents this question coming up again and again because md5 is old and rightfully on the "never use" list for many people. Even if there are situations where it is fine as an effective improvement over a CRC.
I agree that the primary reason for making the change is to eliminate these kinds of discussions :) In fact, there has been an open issue on the python.org tracker for some time to do just that; see https://github.com/python/pythondotorg/issues/1227. It will also require co-ordination with release managers as we are the ones who populate the data, if anyone feels motivated to dig into the webside code.
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