[Ecls-list] Question #2

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll
<juanjose.garciaripoll at googlemail.com> wrote:
> I have been asked to make FASL files incompatible between releases -- or
> even between commits if we follow Question #1 in previous email --. That
> means if a FASL is created with a given version, such as 10.2.1.124, a later
> version of ECL, say 10.2.1.125 should refuse to load the file.
> How many of you would find this problematic?

I know of people who got bitten because they did not get early diagnostic
from ECL runtime that some FASLs needed to be recompiled after
an update and rebuild.  So, I would welcome this change, if it means
that ECL runtime will conduct a simple sanity check (e.g. not expensive.)