From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Linux kernel Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2016 14:57:10 +0200 Message-ID: <87inu3oqu1.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87eg4sr9os.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44300) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bihqR-0003r8-0w for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Sep 2016 08:57:19 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bihqM-0001gc-38 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Sep 2016 08:57:18 -0400 In-Reply-To: (David Craven's message of "Sat, 10 Sep 2016 00:48:04 +0200") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: David Craven Cc: guix-devel David Craven skribis: >> Nitpick: Use =E2=80=98base32=E2=80=99 here, rather than in the callee (t= hat way, base32 >> parsing happens at compile time and errors are detected early.) > > Good to know, I wondered why we always need sha256 and base32 :-) To illustrate: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- scheme@(guile-user)> ,use(guix) scheme@(guile-user)> ,expand (base32 "1s8krs3y2n6pzav7ic59dz41alqalphv7vww4= 138ag30wh0fpvwl") $3 =3D #vu8(148 239 235 0 228 96 60 133 70 32 156 239 179 225 165 10 83 21 = 200 111 169 176 120 182 250 215 88 225 135 206 19 233) --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Ludo'.