[elephant-devel] 0.6.1 alpha dependency

[Ian Eslick]

Does anyone have a strong dependency on the current 0.6.1 alpha?  I  
may need to change the serializer format to accommodate some types on  
lispworks that don't get properly deserialized.

Specifically, lispworks supports a short-float which on most systems  
is synonymous with single-float but on lispworks is special.  so if  
it is coerced and saved as single-float, when deserialized the type  
of short-float and single-float mismatch.  I would need to add a new  
tag for short-float, but save it as a C single-float.  There may be  
several other snafus of this nature.  For various reasons I need to  
renumber the type tags which means that existing 0.6.1 databases will  
not be properly deserialized.

Please let me know in the next day or two if this will be a problem.   
0.6.0 can still upgrade to 0.6.1 serializer format, it is just  
existing 0.6.1 databases that will not be upgradable.

Ian