On Tue, 27 Dec 2016 12:01:01 +0100
Laslo Hunhold <dev_AT_frign.de> wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Mar 2016 18:59:24 +0200
> Mattias Andrée <maandree_AT_kth.se> wrote:
>
> Hey Mattias,
>
> what justifies the existence of base16(1), base32(1) and
> base64(1)? I think there need to be good reasons, given
> it would add almost 500 lines of code to maintain to
> sbase.
>
> I think I am not the only one here who really appreciates
> your work on sbase. So, maybe in the future, if you plan
> on working something, maybe you could post your ideas
> here, so you are not wasting time on things that get
> rejected anyway.
>
> Cheers
>
> Laslo
>
I cannot remember right now, but think it's necessary
for sbase (but that doesn't make it less code to maintain).
But I guess base64(1) can be used for obfuscation or
escaping binary data in text files.
Received on Tue Dec 27 2016 - 17:11:11 CET