On 7/27/07, Zheng Li <li@pps.jussieu.fr> wrote:
> My point is that two different versions of thread.cmi greatly reduce the
> flexibility. I don't see many obstacles to make them agree, but I'm not sure
> whether there exist other factors to prevent that from happening.

This is a perfect example of a situation in which Piotr Wieczorek's
interface manipulation patches [1] would come in handy.  In
particular, they would allow each of the implementations of the Thread
module to be retyped to a common interface, so that they can share a
.cmi.

- Chris

[1] http://caml.inria.fr/pub/ml-archives/caml-list/2006/12/c7461312202053f2213a9bb33206fcb8.en.html