Did Blender 2.49 break the PyPRP scripts???

[Christian Walther]

As far as I can see, Crypto is only used for the SHA1 sums for Alcugs servers. The MD5 sums for the .sum files are computed using built-in Python functionality. I just tried it and exporting ages for Uru CC seems to work fine without Crypto (with Blender 2.49 and Python 2.5).

[Tsar Hoikas]

Python itself is capable of doing SHA1, I thought.

[Christian Walther]

Hmm, you're right. The hashlib module does that, so we could replace the use of Crypto in prp_MFGSGen.py by that. And its use of the md5 module as well while we're at it, since it generates a deprecation warning in Python 2.6.

The Myst 5 file support in prp_M5Crypt.py and prp_Stream.py (why the duplication BTW?) however uses AES, which doesn't seem to be available in Python proper.

[Tsar Hoikas]

I'm not really sure about the duplication, but I do know that Myst 5 support has never really worked nor has it been used extensively. I think the only successes have been like when I managed to import Myst from M5, and those were few and far between... Perhaps we should consider dropping support for Myst 5?

[Paradox]

Myst 5's broken support make PyPRP more convoluted than it needs to be at the moment. I would be quite happy to see it all stripped out as it would drop one dependency, and make the code easier to follow.

[Lontahv]

I could never get Myst 5 to import correctly. If you want to do Myst 5 stuff now you can use libPlasma pretty easily. For the sake of simplification I also think the Myst 5 stuff should be removed.

[Chacal]

Not to mention that all of MystV's geometry, textures and most physicals are converted by Drizzle anyway.

[Christian Walther]

Fine with me. There's one week left to get it into the release, if anyone of you wants to do it right now. Myself, I'm not familiar with the Myst 5 support and wouldn't know where to start to completely remove it.

[Jamey]

Ok, I tried to install Crypto with Python 2.5 and it wouldn't let me. It would not even let me choose the folder to install it in when I tried changing it.

What now?

[D'Lanor]

A few posts back Christian mentioned that apparently we don't need it. So no harm done.