[tahoe-dev] darcs patch: shorten ids

[zooko]

> mnet had 4-character base64 ids, which came from mojonation, and  
> slowly
> changed to 5-character base32 ids, which were the only ones in 0.7  
> trees.
> the 8-character thing was a quick agreemant betwenn zooko and me on  
> IRC,
> but i think the idea of having different lengths showing different  
> types
> of ids is very good.

I agreed to 8-characters because Arno told me that foolscap  
represented tubIDs in 8-characters.  :-)

nodeids are (currently) tubIDs, so I thought they should be  
represented the same.

Regards,

Zooko