Comment by mgaunard

3 years ago

It takes literally 5 minutes to write a python script that does this.

It took a long time to get this adopted because people are most likely busy with things that cannot be already solved trivially.

I think it's nice that this will soon be possible to do without adding Python as a dependency in your build system

> trivially

The article covers quite a few reasons why the way things are done without #embed are not quite as trivial as they seem.

  • I've been doing it for 20 years without any single issue, on fairly large files.

    This proposal doesn't even allow to compress or encrypt the data.

    • And yet the issues in the article are real and non-trivial. Perhaps you just never hit them, or you have a high tolerance for non-trivial solutions.