19 Dec
2017
19 Dec
'17
3:59 p.m.
On 19 December 2017 at 15:48, Peter Dimov via Boost <boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:
If we name the module 'hash' it's not hard to see that in the future it will be seen as the obvious home for implementations of MD5, SHA-*, and other hash algorithms (FNV-1a, cityhash...) which we do miss in Boost. So there will be pressure to add them, pull requests implementing them, and so on.
The question is do we see this as a bad thing?
Well I don't want this to create extra pressure on me, so I do. I'd rather they were separate, unless we were expanding the boost::hash implementation to support multiple hash algorithms.