From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA49CBC6B for ; Mon, 7 Jan 2008 22:17:45 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ao8CANYlgkdDz4He/2dsb2JhbACoRw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.24,255,1196636400"; d="scan'208";a="7543309" Received: from fettunta.fettunta.org ([67.207.129.222]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 07 Jan 2008 22:17:45 +0100 Received: from aquarium.takhisis.invalid (unknown [10.17.0.10]) by fettunta.fettunta.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CCB9181BA for ; Mon, 7 Jan 2008 21:17:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: by aquarium.takhisis.invalid (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D13E4D4276; Mon, 7 Jan 2008 22:17:31 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 22:17:31 +0100 From: Stefano Zacchiroli To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Shared run-time DLLs for commerce Message-ID: <20080107211731.GA32325@takhisis.invalid> References: <200801071130.29025.jon@ffconsultancy.com> <200801071503.26977.jon@ffconsultancy.com> <47824B45.1000507@frisch.fr> <200801071951.25170.jon@ffconsultancy.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200801071951.25170.jon@ffconsultancy.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-12-11) X-Spam: no; 0.00; zacchiroli:01 zack:01 run-time:01 fwiw:01 zacchiroli:01 zack:01 unibo:01 wrote:01 maintainers:01 caml-list:01 digest:01 dlls:01 api:02 gnu:03 debian:04 On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 07:51:23PM +0000, Jon Harrop wrote: > I'd be very happy if the brittle digest comparison were replaced with a > structural API comparison instead. That would save me a lot of time and > effort. 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. +1 on this feature request. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ............... now what? zack@{upsilon.cc,cs.unibo.it,debian.org} -<%>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la demo dema ? /\ All one has to do is hit the (15:57:15) Bac: no, la demo scema \/ right keys at the right time