Re: [boost] [1.34.0] serialization, spirit, borland and msvc-6.5

From: Nicola Musatti (Nicola.Musatti_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-01-29 05:13:36

Robert Ramey <ramey <at> rrsd.com> writes:
[...]
> b) I would think that the "best" solution would be for the Jamfile to detect 
> that spirit 1.6 isn't available on a platform which requires it and skip 
> adding the xml_?archives to the library.  So the library would build in such 
> a case without xml_support.

Note that what we're discussing here is a solution for Boost 1.34 . My personal
take is that this should be the smallest, simplest change that makes it possible
to use serialization with Borland compilers and VC++ 6.5

The solution for 1.35 should be agreed upon with Joel and the other Spirit
developers; they are considering making different versions of Spirit available
at the same time within the Boost distribution. This would entail a very
different approach for future versions.
 
> c) Similarly, tests in such circumstances would exclude tests for 
> xml_archives.  These would then show up as blanks on the test matrix - 
> indicating test not performed - perfectly reasonable to me.
> 
> I believe that this idea is could be supported with the new V2 in a natural 
> way.  I'm not sure how much jamfile gymnastics would be necessary but 
> hopefully it would be pretty straight forward.

I like your approach, but I think it's to late to apply it to Boost 1.34.

Cheers,
Nicola Musatti