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?

My 0.02¤,
ChriS

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.