Re: [boost] [ptr_container] feature request: BOOST_PTR_CONTAINER_NO_SERIALIZATION

From: Thorsten Ottosen (thorsten.ottosen_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-28 12:30:32

Sebastian Ramacher skrev:
> As of version 1.34, Boost.PtrContainer supports serialization as defined
> by Boost.Serialization. Now I'd like to propose a switch to disable this
> feature. The attached patch adds checks if
> BOOST_PTR_CONTAINER_NO_SERIALZATION is defined around the serialization
> related code blocks and enables/disables serialization support.

Thanks. I'll give a better answer tomorrow when I get some more time on 
my hands.

> It's not that I don't like serialization support but on a Debian system
> you have to install libboost-serialization-dev and
> libboost-serialization1.34.0 just to use Boost.PtrContainer.

Oh. That's pretty annoying. But you don't have to build 
Boost.Serialization, do you?

Let's see if we can fix this with 1.34.1 too. I'm not sure the macro 
approach is the right one yet.

-Thorsten