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From: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
To: Ker Lutyn <ker527mail@yahoo.com>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] extending a type with Marshal
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 22:38:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031008213845.GA26349@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031008212257.19628.qmail@web40606.mail.yahoo.com>

Why not just prefix each message with a version number. Recipients
then need to be able to support just current_version and
current_version-1[*] of each message type.

Rich.

[*] Implying the knowledge to upgrade from this to current_version.

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-08 21:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-08 21:22 Ker Lutyn
2003-10-08 21:38 ` Richard Jones [this message]
2003-10-08 21:54 ` Peter Jolly
2003-10-10  8:37 ` skaller
2003-10-10  9:19 ` Christian Rinderknecht
2003-10-10 10:38   ` skaller
2003-10-10 17:19   ` Martin Berger
2003-10-12  9:01   ` William Chesters
2003-10-12  9:06     ` William Chesters
2003-10-12 19:45     ` About ASN.1 and network encoding (was: Re: [Caml-list] extending a type with Marshal) David MENTRE

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