Re: [boost] [mpi] Boost.MPI broken

Subject: Re: [boost] [mpi] Boost.MPI broken
From: Jeremiah Willcock (jewillco_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-07-02 21:16:36

On Fri, 2 Jul 2010, Matthias Troyer wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The attached patch fixes the compilation problem on MacOS X - could 
> someone please check whether this also works on other platforms?
>
> The fundamental problem is the definition of the set of "primitive" 
> types that any archive class needs to support to be compatible with 
> Boost.Serialization. In the past those had been the fundamental builtin 
> types and std::string. This has now changed to include a list of 10 
> additional types that were previously serialized using their serialize() 
> function.
>
> This change in the list of primitive types that every archive needs to 
> support has been a serious breaking change and will most likely also 
> impact other archives.
>
> Robert, it would be good if you could add an explicit list of all 
> primitive types that every archive needs to support to the documentation 
> and archive concept, and announce any upcoming changes?
>
> Ideally though it would be great if those types could get their 
> serialize() function back so that they do not need to be treated ad 
> primitive types.

It works for me on Linux and Open MPI; I checked both the mpi and 
graph_parallel test directories.

-- Jeremiah Willcock