Re: [boost] Serialization Library Review

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-11-17 11:42:37

At 04:08 AM 11/17/2002, Matthias Troyer wrote:
 >
 >On Sunday, November 17, 2002, at 05:43 AM, David Abrahams wrote:
 >>
 >> Does anybody else feel they need more time to give this library a
 >> thorough going-over? I think we could afford to extend the review for
 >> a few more days. I would especially be willing to do so if it would
 >> allow for enough discussion for someone like Jeff to make a definitive
 >> vote, since he has experience in the domain.
 >
 >Yes, it would also help me to try get the code working under gcc v. 3
 >and to really test the library, as well as to try provide some extra
 >binary formats (e.g. XDR or PVM formats) in order to see if it works
 >well.
 >
 >Could we extend it by one week so that we have another weekend?

I'm really interested in the XDR format, not because I care about the 
format itself, but because others seem to use it as some sort of litmus 
test for serialization libraries. Thus knowing that Robert's library 
handles XDR well is of interest.

So I'd like to see the review period extended too.

--Beman