Hi Simon,

On Monday, October 30, 2017 at 5:18:27 PM UTC, Simon King wrote:
>
> Hi Jeroen, 
>
> On 2017-10-30, Jeroen Demeyer <jdem...@cage.ugent.be <javascript:>> 
> wrote: 
> > Another very relevant question: are pickles supposed to be 
> > hardware/OS-independent? In other words: can I take a pickle from one 
> > machine and unpickle it on a different machine (assuming that the 
> > software version is the same)? 
>
> Should be, and would be tested with the scheme that I proposed for 
> the future pickle jars. 
>

This is a huge commitment, to support backward compatibility of more or 
less arbitrary
Sage objects.
I am really not sure whether it is a good idea to support.
Perhaps for a very restricted set of "easy" Sage objects, yes, but throwing 
in the jar complicated  objects, which
depend in a nontrivial way on the category framework, no.

Dima

>
> Cheers, 
> Simon 
>
>

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