md5sum [was: bogofilter-0.95.2 - new current release]

[David Relson]

On Sat, 02 Jul 2005 17:29:35 +0200
Boris 'pi' Piwinger wrote:

> David Relson <relson at osagesoftware.com> wrote:
> 
> >> I meant: What is the use of md5? Why do we have the test in
> >> the first place?
> >
> >The test confirms that encoding with utf-8 produces the same result.
> 
> So if I understand you correctly, it is not used for any
> operation in bogofilter, but just for testing purposes?
> 
> pi

That's right.  It's also true of "make check", whose purpose is to
verify that bogofilter is working correctly on the build system.