From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id XAA31445; Wed, 8 Oct 2003 23:38:49 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA28363 for ; Wed, 8 Oct 2003 23:38:48 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from aomori.annexia.org (annexia.force9.co.uk [212.56.101.183]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h98Lcl124648 for ; Wed, 8 Oct 2003 23:38:47 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from rich by aomori.annexia.org with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1A7M17-0006sk-00; Wed, 08 Oct 2003 22:38:45 +0100 Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 22:38:45 +0100 To: Ker Lutyn Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] extending a type with Marshal Message-ID: <20031008213845.GA26349@redhat.com> References: <20031008212257.19628.qmail@web40606.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031008212257.19628.qmail@web40606.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i From: Richard Jones X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 implying:01 freshmeat:01 ltd:98 marshal:01 business:96 data:03 type:07 type:07 www:91 www:91 recipients:90 message:89 message:89 ran:12 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk 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. -- Richard Jones. http://www.annexia.org/ http://freshmeat.net/users/rwmj Merjis Ltd. http://www.merjis.com/ - all your business data are belong to you. "My karma ran over your dogma" ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners