Re: [boost] Re: Serialization (Persistence) library draft submission

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-03-01 17:39:50

At 05:14 PM 3/1/2002, rameysb wrote:

 >As no option is ranked first in every catagory, and different
 >applications have different priorities - there is no way that there
 >can be universal agreement on this point.

That's for sure:-)

 >I am currently making changes that will implement iarchive and
 >oarchive as base classes.  while the specific types will be handled
 >through virtual functions.

I suppose this came up before, and I missed it, but wouldn't the more usual 
case be applications wanting compile-time polymorphism?  Would there be a 
way to provide that, with runtime polymorphism only when specifically 
needed?

 >This wll permit any application to use his preferred format with no
 >conflict.

Great!  Really a requirement for wide use.

 >I hope this will adddress the issue

Hopefully.

--Beman