[elephant-devel] 0.6.1 alpha dependency

[Robert L. Read]

Actually, my live site http://konsenti.com is using the alpha version.
However, I don't use
any short floats, and as co-maintainer I should be one of the people who
should be able to
hack around any problem that arises.


On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 10:53 -0400, Ian Eslick wrote:

> 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
> 
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