Re: splitting out on_winver_change() and friends

[Robert Millan]

On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 08:51:26PM +0100, Roderick Colenbrander wrote:
> The system on windows doesn't use the md5sum (I think it has one) but it looks for the product ID which is burried into most executables first. It also checks for other things but in a hackier way. As there are a lot of different versions of a program but which all need the same override.

I think it's a bad idea to do that:

- Product IDs may not necessarily be unique identifiers for every
  given program.  Hashes are.

- It's easier for users to submit information about their apps if they
  can use tools they're familiar with such as md5sum / sha1sum.