Re: [boost] Re: Serialization Library Review

From: Matthias Troyer (troyer_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-11-18 15:39:28

On Monday, November 18, 2002, at 02:30 PM, Yitzhak Sapir wrote:
> I think taking out the pointer facility into a separate class would be 
> better design.  By this I mean, that register_type<> and the logic for 
> identifying and maintaining pointers would be in a separate class from 
> the archive.  The archive would hold an instance of this class (given 
> in the constructor), and use member functions of this container class 
> to determine what to do when it encounters a new pointer/alias.  But 
> it seems to me this is not the case yet (again, correct me if I'm 
> wrong).

I want to second that vote. I would prefer a separate facility for 
pointer serialization, as an add-on to a serialization library if that 
is possible. Robert, what do you think, could it be separated out?

Matthias