[ansel] Store images with extension?

Chuck Hagenbuch chuck at horde.org
Tue Sep 7 14:20:56 PDT 2004


Quoting Alan Garrison <alang at cronosys.com>:

> Sure, just doing a "md5(microtime())", while is basically nice and
> random-y, can be a little ugly if you are doing eyeball comparisons of
> different values.  I'm thinking along the lines of if you had to do some
> manual filesystem maintenance of one or more particular files that
> finding names by raw md5 hashes would be tedious.  Granted my thinking
> here is a bit filesystem-centric.

Yes, finding by md5 would be tedious. We don't do that currently; why would we
add it, like you're suggesting?

-chuck

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