Re: [Caml-list] Long-term storage of values

[Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com>]

Dario Teixeira wrote:

> This works fine; there is however one nagging problem: the marshalled
> representation is brittle.  If Story.t changes even slightly, I will
> no longer be able to retrieve values marshalled with the old version.

Is XDR a solution? Its part of libocamlnet-ocaml.

Its come up on this mailing list a couple of times and I have a little
snippet of code if you want it.

Cheers,
Erik
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