[boost] Re: Re: iostreams library review

From: Jonathan Turkanis (technews_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-06-01 20:53:13

"Brian Braatz" <brianb_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
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> """"""""
> > what is the fate of this library?
>
> Thanks for your interest!
>
> The previous version available at
> http://www.xmission.com/~turkanis/iostreams/.

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>
> A quick look your page is very interesting. (looks very cool)

Thanks.

>
> I was thinking (also) along the same lines for some work I am
currently
> doing, but you beat me to it.
>
> Question, have you tried to combine the streaming with boost
> serialization?
>

I think Robert Ramey has already done the work to combine
serialization with iostreams, since his archive types are
constructible from arbitrary streams -- that means it's already
possible to create archives based on streams from the iostreams
library, e.g. memory-mapped file streams.

There may be other interactions I haven't considered. I've only read
the documentation; I haven't actually tried to use the serialization
library yet.

Best Regards,
Jonathan