Re: [boost] Re: Re:"memory access violation" in boost::serialization

From: Matt Hurd (matt.hurd_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-07-12 18:24:26

On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 14:52:17 -0400, Jeff Flinn
<triumphsprint2000_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Robert,
> 
> "Robert Ramey" <ramey_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
> news:20040712165416.36BCB318E9_at_acme.west.net...
> > As an aside - I notice that I'm getting about 300 downloads/month of the
> > serialization package from my web site.  I have no information about
> > downloads from the Yahoo/Boost files area - (which I would be curious to
> > know).  I get very little feedback - I'm wondering if lots of downloaders
> > take a look and decide it's too complex to actually use.
> 
> I've seen several postings in comp.lang.c++* and microsoft...vc.* over the
> last few months. I'm also guilty of doing a little evangelizing there.
> Robert, your being a little pessimistic. Could be that many are using it
> without problem. :-) My initial uses even way back with #12(or there abouts)
> were successful. Albeit, I only needed to exercise simpler facets such as
> serialization of non-polymorphic classes and built-in data types. Certainly,
> your approach is much more intuitive/flexible/... than MFC's.

Robert,

I'm using in some apps on win32 vc7.1 and the biggest complement I can
give is, "It just works."  Thanks for you effort, especially after
that first tortuous review.

Regards,

Matt Hurd.