[Metakit] Database binary compatibility?

[Jean-Claude Wippler]

William K. Volkman wrote:

> 	I've finally gotten around to working on the
> WIN32 version of one of our applications.  On the
> Linux side we are using metakit '2.4.9.2', for
> Python 2.3 on windows I can only seem to find
> version '2.4.9.3'.  I'm getting an error:
> "TypeError: wrong type for StringProp"
> when issuing a clientvw.find(id=clientid) call.

Only thing I can think of is that a change to Mk4py between 2.4.9.2 and 
2.4.9.3 has made the system less tolerant w.r.t. type passing.  Looks 
like something gets passed in which is not a string?

> The odd thing is if clientid is pulled from
> another metakit view I don't get the error,
> only when clientid is a python string.

Or perhaps unicode-type diffs?

> One possible source of confusion on my part is
> I have copied our client .mk file from Linux
> to Windows. Does that work or do I need to reload
> from a flat file?

MK datafiles are portable across O/S, cpu, and byte-order (i.e. 
little-/big-endian).  The problem must be elsewhere.

-jcw