[boost] Re: Serialization Review Results

From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-12-13 00:07:34

From: "Peter Petrov" <piettropro_at_[hidden]>

>Something that I would really like to see, is the cooperation between the
>serialization library and the dynamic_any type (developed by Alexander
>Nasonov, not yet into Boost). More specifically, it must be possible to
>serialize and deserialize dynamic_any's if, of course, the underlying types
>support this and the dynamic_any is configured in a suitable way - for
>example, to support operator<< and/or operator>>, and possibly something
>more if necessary. This would be a very powerful mechanism, allowing
>serialization of arbitrary data.

Why don't you try to implement it with the current library?
The package includes serialization of shared_ptr and auto_ptr
as examples.  Also includes serialization of all stl collection 
templates.  I'm sure you could implement this in short order.

Robert Ramey