Leon Timmermans

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> > How would this help the development of of perl? > > Although I couldn't say by how much, for the following purposes, Github Discussion is likely a better...

> GitHub Discussions is open ![image](https://github.com/Perl/perl5/assets/50472/dbee13fd-9b4c-4048-a7d2-dce836fe5032)

> @Leont, do you still want to proceed with this merge request? Thanks. I forgot about this. I've rebased and compiled using clang-16, and seeing now warnings so I'm going...

> What instantly comes to my mind is: When we provide the feature of setting the algorithm which is used for hashing per attribute, should we then also add tooling...

> I may get this slightly wrong, but generally the (most accepted?) approach is: That is an approach you could use when transitioning from md5 or sha1 as a password...

> I personally think that migrating password hashing algorithms is not something that is done every day / very often and that it is not worth it to maintain code...

> @Leont Can you elaborate on that? Sure. I dislike it for three reasons. 1. Combining two constructs in such a way has a risk of being less secure than...

My first guess here (based on previous problems) is that the code is expecting a local symbol to override a core symbol, but that doesn't work with static linking.

There are two «if (shortver >= SHORTVER(5, 35))»s in there, can't they be merged?