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@@ -29,4 +29,6 @@ source for coding standards, formatting, linting, and workflow rules.
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- The format specification is in `FORMAT.md`.
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- Open work, open design questions included, is tracked only in the repo's
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issues: https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/mfer/issues. There is no `TODO.md` and no
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TODO list in `README.md`; do not add either.
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TODO list in `README.md`; do not add either. For this repo this overrides the
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`REPO_POLICIES.md` rule to put the todo list in the README, per sneak's
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ruling: https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/mfer/issues/76#issuecomment-118130.
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@@ -157,18 +157,23 @@ The manifest file would do several important things:
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- metadata size should not be used as an excuse to sacrifice utility (such
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as providing checksums over each chunk of a large file)
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# Open Questions
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# Original Design Questions
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These were the open questions when the project started; open design questions
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are now tracked only in the [issues](https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/mfer/issues).
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- Should the manifest file include checksums of individual file chunks, or just
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for the whole assembled file?
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- If so, should the chunksize be fixed or dynamic?
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for the whole assembled file? If so, should the chunk size be fixed or
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dynamic? Still open, on
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[issue 81](https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/mfer/issues/81#issuecomment-118698).
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- Should the manifest signature format be GnuPG signatures, or those from
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OpenBSD's signify (of which there is a good
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[golang implementation](https://github.com/frankbraun/gosignify)?
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[golang implementation](https://github.com/frankbraun/gosignify))? Still open,
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as question 10 on [issue 82](https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/mfer/issues/82).
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- Should the on-disk serialization format be proto3 or json?
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- Should the on-disk serialization format be proto3 or json? Settled: it is
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proto3, see `FORMAT.md` and `mfer/mf.proto`.
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# Tool Examples
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