Re: [boost] [ptr_container] [serialization] Header dependency between ptr_vector and serialization

From: Thorsten Ottosen (thorsten.ottosen_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-01-02 07:21:35

Phil Endecott skrev:
> Dear All,
> 
> It seems that the ptr_vector headers include some serialization 
> headers.  I've discovered this because on my Debian system I have 
> installed their libboost-dev package, which includes the header-only 
> libraries such as ptr_container, but not libboost-serialization-dev.  
> Alexey Khudyakov has already filed a Debian bug report:  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=457654
> 
> So, what should be going on here?  My guess is that a subset of the 
> serialization headers should be included in Debian's header-only 
> libboost-dev package, so that ptr_vector can compile.  I'm not sure if 
> they get any hints for their partitioning from the Boost build system; 
> if they do, then it should be fixed there.  Any thoughts?

1.35 has a non-intrisive implementation of serialization s.t. the two 
libraries are decoupled.

-Thorsten