[boost] Re: Serialization Library Review (pointer serialization facility)

From: Alberto Barbati (abarbati_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-11-20 14:38:41

Matthias Troyer wrote:
> 
> 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?

I already proposed a similar facility (under the unfortunate name of 
"registry") in a few previous posts of mine. Yitzhak Sapir has expressed 
my idea with much better words, so you may count my vote for it, too.

Alberto Barbati