[boost] Serialization Library: review

From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-11-20 11:43:44

From: "Gennadiy Rozental" <gennadiy.rozental_at_[hidden]>

Its clear you spend a lot of time on this.  Your attention to end perception of
detail is extraordinary.  Also your critisms are phrased in a way that
proposes and contrasts the alternative - a very useful feature.

So many of these I have no problem with - except maybe with the time
do actually do work.  Things like breaking up the stl.hpp, etc are
non-controversial.  A few of the bugs have already been fixed and
some are reported here for the first time.  These posts have long
convinced me that the documentation needs to be corrected and amplified in
certain aspects.

One thing interests me right away.  Is there anyway that void_cast.*
would be interesting as a separate boost object.  I don't have
much emotional capitol invested in this and would be happy
to split it off right away and/or replace with your own
implementation somewhere else in boost.  I have no idea
whether it has any utility outside of this context.

Generally I like this post very much. There are several things I will
disagree with but I will require more time to respond with attention
it deserves.

Robert Ramey