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From: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
To: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Build failure on master
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:46:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3k51zf4xl.fsf@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878wiq539t.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic Courtès"'s message of "Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:05:34 +0200")

On Wed 15 Jul 2009 00:05, ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

>>> Then it could also try to interpret version numbers and determine
>>> whether that bytecode is really incompatible, or whether it can
>>> interpret it.
>>
>> Are there scenarios where that would be worthwhile?
>
> Maybe, e.g., when the `.go' version is known to be a strict subset of
> the current objcode version.

We could do that, yes. Treat the version N.M as compatible with O.P if
N==O and P <= M in the ascii sequence.

Andy
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  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-23 21:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-12 15:21 Build failure on master Mike Gran
2009-07-12 21:56 ` Ludovic Courtès
2009-07-14  7:26   ` Neil Jerram
2009-07-14 13:19     ` Ludovic Courtès
2009-07-14 13:21     ` Ludovic Courtès
2009-07-14 15:05       ` Neil Jerram
2009-07-14 22:05         ` Ludovic Courtès
2009-07-23 21:46           ` Andy Wingo [this message]
2009-07-23 21:44 ` Andy Wingo

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