Re: [boost] [rfc] I/O Chain Library, Preview Release

From: Scott Woods (scott.suzuki_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-12-06 01:51:52

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From: "Sebastian Redl" <sebastian.redl_at_[hidden]>
To: <boost_at_[hidden]>
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 10:15 AM
Subject: Re: [boost] [rfc] I/O Chain Library, Preview Release

>> Imagine you have an application that saves its configuration in a file 
>> using
>> the I/O chain library. You decide that the encoding will be binary to
>> discourage
>> users from fiddling. You further decide that users arent so bad and that
>> an advanced tab will let them switch between binary encoding, XML and
>> others.
>> It might allow for easy exchange of configurations within a user 
>> community.
>>
> That sounds like completely changing the serialization format of the
> configuration. I don't think my streams are going to help you much
> there. A binary structured format and XML are completely different
> things. You can implement both on top of my streams, sure, but beyond
> that I think you're left with having to replace the entire serializer
> component. That means switch or virtual functions. Virtuals would be a
> better solution here, I think.

Yes the best I could do as well.

Looking forward to your IO chain rationale.