[Pharo-users] Fuel 1.7 vs Fuel 1.8 questions

[Paul DeBruicker]

Is there a strong reason to switch to 1.8 vs 1.7 other than the fact 
that 1.8 is the new hotness?

I remember that you made no guarantees but are Fuel 1.7 and Fuel 1.8 
serialized formats compatible?

If not is there a recommended process to switch from one format to the 
other?

I'd assume starting from a clean pharo you could:
        1. load Fuel 1.7
        2. materialize all the interesting Fuel 1.7 objects
        3. removing Fuel 1.7
        4. load Fuel 1.8
        5. serialize all the interesting objects in Fuel 1.8



I have not looked at the code but is there a way to do a streaming 
'serialize to byte array' in conjunction with Zinc for populating a 
database?


Thanks for your work on this.