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Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2012 22:44:57 +0200
From: magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: magnum-jumbo and magnum-bleeding (NOT J7), and the
 source() function

On 2012-07-09 17:50, jfoug wrote:
> What direction should the fmt.methods.source() (currently named get_source)
> function take?
> 
> I would propose this.
> 
> 1.       Rename it to source()  (how Solar wants it).  Also change any
> documentation, and -list= data to reference source
> 
> 2.       Move it to right after salt, this would be a more 'fitting'
> location.  Currently in bleeding, it is at the bottom of the structure, but
> I simply put it there to get NULL pointers during early implementation, so I
> would not have to modify every _fmt.c file.

Fine with me.

> 3.       Get jumbo-bleed updated with these changes.
> 
> 4.       Move these changes into magnum-jumbo  (since we have a Jumbo-7RC
> branch of git).   Once this is done, bleeding and jumbo should be back to
> being much more 'similar' to each other.

Thinks that should be in magnum-jumbo should enter the tree in
magnum-jumbo, and propagate to bleeding. The other way round works too
but is trickier to merge, and history looks weird afterwards (patches
listed twice).

magnum

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