RE: [boost] Re: Formal review of "Output Formatters" library beginstoday

From: Jeff Garland (jeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-09-12 16:08:51

On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 21:16:29 +0100, Reece Dunn wrote
> Boost.Serialize does a great job, but is not very flexible in the 
> way that the data is serialized.

This statement is incorrect.  By writing a custom archiver class you can
create virtually any output you want via serialization.  That said, it's
clearly harder to do the simple sorts of things I believe output formmaters is
trying to achieve (haven't really looked at the lib yet), serialization
requires the building/linking of the library, etc.  So I think there's room
for both...

Jeff