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by akmarinov 1885 days ago
It used to be a zip, there’s a reason why they changed it to xip
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AJRF 1885 days ago
That reason being digital signatures. You can get the same confidence from posting an MD5 hash to check. Xips are an awful solution to fix a solved problem.
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akmarinov 1885 days ago
Absolutely no one will bother to do the check.
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saagarjha 1885 days ago
The reason is stupid for the problem it solves.
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