Jeffrey Lee Hellrung, Jr. wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Robert Ramey <ramey@rrsd.com> wrote:
>
> "Barrett, Brian W" <bwbarre@sandia.gov> wrote in message
> news:<69A29AB53D57F54D81061A9E4E45B8FD239CC111@EXMB01.srn.sandia.gov>...
>> On 10/17/12 1:00 PM, "Robert Ramey" <ramey@rrsd.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Barrett, Brian W wrote:
>>>>
>
>> Unfortunately, I'm barely competent in using Boost.MPI and
>> Boost.Serialization.  I'm definitely not in a position to be able to
>> apply a patch.
>>
>> What I'm getting from your responses and the general silence
>> elsewhere is that the right answer is to deal with the
>> incompatibilities between versions of Boost and explicitly
>> instantiate all the internal MPI archivers and hope for the best.
>> It's a little painful, but I think we can do that.
>
> Well, your organization could contract with me to address this for
> you.
>
> I've done special work for several companies which use the
> serialization
> library.  This work has been contributed to boost and become part of
> the
> distributed package.  So
>
> a) The organization gets what it needs for a reasonable cost.
> b) Any generally useful enhancements get included in the library
>
> So it helps everyone all around.
>
> Thanks in advance for considering this.
>
>
> I'm not at all versed (let alone well-versed) in either
> Boost.Serialization nor Boost.MPI, so I am not sure what Brian's
> issue exactly is, but I'm curious, Robert, if you acknowledge this as
> an issue? It seems strange to require a user to fiddle with stuff in
> the detail namespace of a library.

I don't doubt it's an issue.  Note that I didn't write the MPI serilializat
and in fact have never even glanced at it.

> Also, and I mean this with the best of intentions, but your
> (Robert's) response here could be construed as...unhelpful, and I'm
> taking specific aim at the parting sarcasm. If you don't have the
> time and/or resources to address this or some other issue, I think
> stating so is sufficient.

This is a an email blunder on my part.  I meant to send this as a private
message but I guess I pressed the wrong button.  There was / is no
sarcasm intended.  This is a serious proposal..  For several companies,
I have made special enhancements to the serialization library.  Most of
these
ended up as part of the library. One case in particular was work on
the portable_binary?iarchive.