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Actually, my live site <A HREF="http://konsenti.com">http://konsenti.com</A> is using the alpha version. However, I don't use<BR>
any short floats, and as co-maintainer I should be one of the people who should be able to<BR>
hack around any problem that arises.<BR>
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On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 10:53 -0400, Ian Eslick wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Does anyone have a strong dependency on the current 0.6.1 alpha? I </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">may need to change the serializer format to accommodate some types on </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">lispworks that don't get properly deserialized.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Specifically, lispworks supports a short-float which on most systems </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">is synonymous with single-float but on lispworks is special. so if </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">it is coerced and saved as single-float, when deserialized the type </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">of short-float and single-float mismatch. I would need to add a new </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">tag for short-float, but save it as a C single-float. There may be </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">several other snafus of this nature. For various reasons I need to </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">renumber the type tags which means that existing 0.6.1 databases will </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">not be properly deserialized.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Please let me know in the next day or two if this will be a problem. </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">0.6.0 can still upgrade to 0.6.1 serializer format, it is just </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">existing 0.6.1 databases that will not be upgradable.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Ian</FONT>
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