Re: Fwd: Crypt_HMAC vs Crypt_HMAC2

On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 22:01 +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > Oops, I just realized matthew didn't cc the other lists. > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Matthew Fonda <matthewfonda@gmail.com> > Date: Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 5:33 AM > Subject: Re: Crypt_HMAC vs Crypt_HMAC2 > To: Daniel O'Connor <daniel.oconnor@gmail.com> > > > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Daniel O'Connor > <daniel.oconnor@gmail.com>wrote: > > > Hey Padraic / Matthew; > > I'm guessing Crypt_HMAC is superceeded by Crypt_HMAC2; any objections to me > > marking the package as such? > > > > At the moment, Crypt_HMAC won't be installable with the new pear installer > > (http://wiki.php.net/pear/packages/migration); and it would be good to > > know if we plan on killing it off or keeping it around (because Auth depends > > on it) > > > > Hi Daniel, > > I'd say it would be okay to kill it off - I'm not familiar with Crypt_HMAC2, > but it appears to superceed it now. Also, with ext/hash enabled by default > now (which didn't even exist when Crypt_HMAC was originally written), I > don't see much point in keeping it around. > > -Matthew I use Crypt_HMAC2 in Services_Amazon_SQS. It works well and supports features that are not released in Crypt_HMAC. I emailed Pádraic in November and he said there might be one more release to go before marking Crypt_HMAC2 as stable. Regards, Mike