From: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Portability of zwc files between zsh versions
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2022 21:16:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4b678a820ef0226e35e374b2682925ec59ed8121.camel@ntlworld.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH+w=7aGsMMoxas9-PDZQaC3DJ_2xBSz_mJLV28OEddaRs_GDg@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, 2022-08-14 at 12:38 -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> Possibly the right thing to do would be to remove the version check
> and instead be more diligent about updating the *MAGIC values, I
> suspect that the habit of doing the latter was forgotten when the
> version check subsumed it.
Indeed, I think the shell version check was inspired by the knowledge
that we were already being less than diligent in updating the dumped
wordcode version number.
Maybe a bit of creative thinking about how we detect relevant changes is
needed. The only real requirement is picking up incompatibilities when
we make a release.
pws
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-08-14 20:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-08-14 18:19 Glenn Morris
2022-08-14 19:38 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-08-14 20:16 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2022-08-14 21:05 ` Bart Schaefer
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