Re: [boost] Hello?

From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-09-15 15:28:07

David Abrahams wrote:

> At this point, if you make any change I think you should add a note
> for those of us who are too clever by half, saying that, yes, it's
> really okay to overload in boost::serialization, and describing the
> trick used.

no problem with that.

I've recently checked in changes in the documentation in accordance with 
this discussion.  I believe that they will be satisfactory.

BUT there is a problem.

I recast the section Archive Concept / Saving in the table format  used by 
SGI.  I'm very dissatisfied with this for esthetic reasons.  I may be more 
sensitive to this than other people because I use a monitor than can display 
in portrait mode and that is the way I always use it.  (Its in explicable to 
me that everyone doesn't do this!).

I know I didn't choose the orginal form without thinking about it.  Looking 
back I realize now I was strongly influenced by the presentation in "STL 
Tutorial and Reference Guide" which lays out the requirements in a form 
similar to the one I chose.

Aside from any errors that remain which I will be happy to fix in any case, 
I would like to leave the requirements in the dictionary text form as it was 
originally.  If I move to the table form for the Archive Concept, then in 
the interest of consistency I would also have to do that with the section 
Serializable Concept which would be a much larger task.  So what I would 
like to do is revert to the dictionary format for the saving archive 
concept.  I've just uploaded updated document files.  It contains one format 
for the save archive concept and the other for the load archive concept. 
Interested parties are invited to comment before I make a final change in 
one or the other.

Robert Ramey