Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> writes:

> Thanks, Simon! I too am all for B64-formatted checksums.

Good, it is a trade-off between output readability and code complexity.
Aligning 'sha*sum' with OpenBSD's 'sha*' tools would be nice, and base64
support is one missing piece.

> You may want to coordinate with Pádraig.
> I think he is planning a unification of the checksum-generating tools.

Okay!

> Your patches look fine. One nit: please drop the "Please" here :-)
>
> +  print "\nPlease note that the SHA256 checksum is base64 encoded and not\n";

Thanks, I reworded it a bit further, but I'm not a native speaker so I
appreciate improvements from others.

+  print "\nThe SHA256 checksum is base64 encoded and not hexadecimal,\n";
+  print "which is the default for most checksum tools.\n\n";


/Simon