<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 6 June 2016 at 07:27, Paul Eggert <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eggert@cs.ucla.edu" target="_blank">eggert@cs.ucla.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">Jon Skeet wrote:<br>
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hard (both technically and in terms<br>
of any IANA process required) would it be to start publishing a zip file of<br>
the tzvalidate output alongside the code and data files, and include just a<br>
hash within the main data zip file (e.g. as a new file such as<br>
tzvalidate-sha256.txt)? While I'm happy to keep doing this separately, it<br>
would obviously be better if it were integrated into the main process.<br>
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Something like this sounds like a good idea. I'd be inclined to use tar.gz format (as this format is already used by the distribution)</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Sorry, yes, that was sloppy on my part - I meant "a general compressed container".</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">as a container for zgrep -i format (whatever that turns out to be) for validation.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Well, I was proposing a transformation <i>from</i> the zdump -i format into one specifically for validation - in other words, after the "bad data" (typos) use cases have been weeded out, and we're into the "bad code" (in libraries) territory, at which point I still think the format I've proposed is more readable both for humans and machines.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">If we distribute that, and while we're at it distribute the zic binary-file output (which others have requested), then we can use the same mechanism we're already using for checksumming distributions.<br>
</blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Sure. (Can't say I've looked at that part of the existing scheme, but I'm sure it makes sense.)</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Jon</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></div>