mabshoff wrote: > On Jun 28, 2:10 pm, Carl Witty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Jun 28, 1:55 pm, Carl Witty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Carl, > >>> During Developer Days 1, I announced that I wanted to rewrite >>> fast_float to support evaluation over more types, to handle common >>> subexpressions, and to handle conditional expressions. I've started >>> this project by writing a new version of the fast_eval.pyx module >>> docstring, and I'm wondering if anybody has any comments on it. >> Another question about the rewrite: does anybody mind if I break >> unpickling of old pickled fast_float objects? I can make them work, >> but it would require keeping around hundreds of lines of code that I'd >> rather get rid of. > > I believe the current policy is to preserve the old pickles since we > now have the pickle jar to do regression testing. And I agree with > that policy since we must avoid breaking backward compatibility at all > (reasonable) cost. Since we have versioned pickles would that cause > massive pain for you?
What is the policy on breaking backward compatibility of pickling at major releases (e.g., 4.0)? Jason --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
