From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-06-18T17:45:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Stability of Marshaling format

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Feldt" <feldt@ce.chalmers.se>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 12:30 AM
Subject: Stability of Marshaling format


> Basically my question is:
>  How stable can one expect the marshaling format itself to be?

[snip]

> One interesting "data point" would be to know if/when/how the marshal
> format has changed in the past. Have it been changed so that older
> marshaled object couldn't be read back? What is the likelihood of that
> happening again? Matz?

My impression is that it's not stable across
versions. There have been times I had to re-run
a generator to create a new marshal file.

But I don't have any specific data to back that
up, sorry.

Hal