[Distutils] API CHANGE - Migrating from MD5 to SHA2, Take 2

[holger krekel]

Hi Donald,

On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 19:43 -0500, Donald Stufft wrote:
> > On Nov 13, 2014, at 9:21 PM, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
> > 
> > Starting a new thread with more explicit details at Richard’s request.
> > Essentially the tl;dr here is that we'll switch to using sha2 (specifically
> > sha256).
> 
> Ping?
> 
> Are we OK to make this change?

sorry i didn't get back earlier.  Before the minor release of devpi-server
last week i tried for two hours to change devpi-server to accomodate
your planned pypi.python.org checksum changes.

I found the change cannot easily be done without changes to the underlying
database schema and thus needs a major new release of devpi-server because
an export/import cycle is needed.  When doing that i also want to do
some internal cleanup related to name normalization (and also relating
to recent pypi.python.org changes) but i need a week or two i guess to
do that.  However i now think that if you do the pypi.python.org checksum
change it shouldn't directly break devpi-server but it would remove 
checksum checking.  I'd rather like to have a new major devpi-server 
release out when you do the change.  Is it ok for you to wait a bit still?

best,
holger