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Shared run-time DLLs for commerce

Jon Harrop
- Alain Frisch
  - Alain Frisch
    - Kuba Ober
    - Jon Harrop
      - Stefano Zacchiroli
        
        Christophe TROESTLER
        
        Jon Harrop
        
        Richard Jones
      - Richard Jones
        
        Jon Harrop
      - Alain Frisch

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From:	Jon Harrop <jon@f...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] Shared run-time DLLs for commerce

On Tuesday 08 January 2008 19:39:04 Christophe TROESTLER wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 22:17:31 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> > FWIW it would also save a lot of time and effort for maintainers of
> > OCaml-related software in (binary-based) GNU/Linux distributions, as
> > Debian and Red Hat.
>
> On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 16:03:51 +0000, Richard Jones wrote:
> > This is certainly true.  The single, brittle digest is a real problem
> > for Red Hat.  It should be at least possible to add additional values
> > and types without that causing incompatibility.
>
> Why don't you guys discuss exactly what kind of robustness you need
> and introduce a feature wish in the bug tracker?

Of course, the package maintainers could always simply remove the digest test 
from their own OCaml package and hope for the best. ;-)

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