Re: [elephant-devel] 0.6.1 alpha dependency

2007-03-16 Thread Robert L. Read
Actually, my live site http://konsenti.com is using the alpha version. However, I don't use any short floats, and as co-maintainer I should be one of the people who should be able to hack around any problem that arises. On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 10:53 -0400, Ian Eslick wrote: > Does anyone have a st

Re: [elephant-devel] 0.6.1 alpha dependency

2007-03-16 Thread Ian Eslick
For coding efficiency, we use a byte tag to indicate the type rather than the symbol returned from type-of. Turns out all lisps but lispworks have short-float = single-float and long-float = double- float, but the lisp spec provides for four different types. Therefore short-float is not a

Trac Wiki (was Re: [elephant-devel] 0.6.1 alpha dependency)

2007-03-16 Thread Pierre THIERRY
Scribit Ian Eslick dies 16/03/2007 hora 14:59: > That would be a good ticket to add the Trac database BTW, I can submit tickets but not edit the wiki, as I have no c-l.net account. I emailed Erik Enge 9 days ago asking to get one, without answer at this day. Curiously, Pierre -- [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [elephant-devel] 0.6.1 alpha dependency

2007-03-16 Thread Pierre THIERRY
Scribit Ian Eslick dies 16/03/2007 hora 14:59: > As you say, I wasn't going to add a new version of the database > format just to read alpha release databases, and so my question was > to see if it was a big problem for someone. It's an alpha release. Depending on it's behaviour is a mistake alrea

Re: [elephant-devel] 0.6.1 alpha dependency

2007-03-16 Thread Ian Eslick
Actually the database format is versioned already (one of the big things we did in this release was make that possible) and so we can read 0.6.0 databases with the 0.6.1 code base in order to upgrade. As you say, I wasn't going to add a new version of the database format just to read alpha

Re: [elephant-devel] 0.6.1 alpha dependency

2007-03-16 Thread Pierre THIERRY
Scribit Ian Eslick dies 16/03/2007 hora 10:53: > For various reasons I need to renumber the type tags which means that > existing 0.6.1 databases will not be properly deserialized. Coudln't the database format be versioned? We could then keep apart the code that work on a given version, to alway

[elephant-devel] 0.6.1 alpha dependency

2007-03-16 Thread Ian Eslick
Does anyone have a strong dependency on the current 0.6.1 alpha? I may need to change the serializer format to accommodate some types on lispworks that don't get properly deserialized. Specifically, lispworks supports a short-float which on most systems is synonymous with single-float but