Hello,
This mail is about
Boost.Serialization and more specifically the new release of this library,
tagged as 1.36, which can be found via the link: www.rrsd.com; I’ve found this link into a
specific thread about Serialization and multi-threading.
Last week, I’ve downloaded this
new release and tested it in my environment — Windows XP and
Visual C++ 7.1.6030; the compilation was done against Boost.1.34.1 trunk
and was running with success but I’ve noticed that some, “not all”, old binary
archives generated w/ Boost.Serialization 1.34.1 can’t be restored with
this new version of Boost.Serialization. When I compare the binary files with
a file binary comparison software utility it seems that the binary formats
between these two versions are not comparables.
I would like to know if this
behaviour is “normal”: i.e. the binary formats between 1.34.1 and 1.36 are not
strictly equivalent and that an old binary archive can be declare “not
compatible” w/ the 1.36 release. Is this right? Furthermore, is it possible to
have the same behaviour w/ an XML or Text Archive format? Could we guarantee a
sort of compatibility in the future? And more generally speaking, what is the
policy for insuring compatibility between new releases of
Boost.Serialization?
Best
regards,
Marc
VIALA