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theseion / Fuel

Fuel, the Smalltalk object serializer
https://theseion.github.io/Fuel
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Expose file format changes in version number #207

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 2 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Henrik Johansen's proposal for the problem that nobody know which Fuel version 
will work with which format:

A versioning scheme that encodes much of the needed information directly is  
great for this.

An example:

X.Y.Z-[Dialect/Version]
X - Major version changes, can not be expected to read streams of previous 
versions correctly (changed storage format for something)
Y - Minor version changes, can be expected to read older versions, but not 
newer, correctly (added new capabilities to the format, such as new hooks etc.)
Z - Internal changes/bugfixes, (no changes to the actual serialization format)
[Dialect/Version] - Not needed for error recovery if classes of serialized 
instances are included, as that is better to use directly if encountering 
missing/incompatible definitions, but a nice bit of info to start from 
otherwise...

Original issue reported on code.google.com by maxle...@gmail.com on 2 Mar 2014 at 10:50

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theseion commented 2 years ago

This has been addressed. Only major version differences will signal a warning as of version 4.