From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2008-12-15T18:52:00+09:00
Subject: Re: marshal_load, marshal_dump

Hi,

In message "Re: marshal_load, marshal_dump"
    on Sun, 14 Dec 2008 07:36:18 +0900, Tim Hunter <TimHunter@nc.rr.com> writes:

|Currently RMagick uses the old _dump and _load methods to 
|marshal/unmarshal images. I'd like to start using the new marshal_load 
|and marshal_dump methods. What is the impact of switching? Can I just 
|replace _dump and _load with marshal_dump and marshal_load? Suppose I 
|have an image that was dumped using an old version of RMagick. How do I 
|support loading it?

marshal_dump has high priority over _dump, so you can keep _load as
long as you want backward compatibility.

							matz.