Re: [boost] [1.44] Beta progress?

Subject: Re: [boost] [1.44] Beta progress?
From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-07-21 19:39:14

Eric Niebler wrote:

> You wrote:
>
>> I spent a fair amount of time reconciling all the above.
>> This does require a change in archives which derive
>> from binary_?archive.  I am sorry about that, but I
>> could find no other way to reconcile all the requirments.
>
> So, does your fix require users to change their archive classes or
> not?

>>>>> or does it make it so that serialization in
>>>>> 1.44 will be able to read binary archives from 1.42/43?
>>>
>>> No.
>>
>> YES !!!
>
> You wrote:
>
>> So
>> I've had to add a program which will fix
>> native binary archives writting by versions
>> 1.42 and 1.43.  I realise this is a huge pain
>> but I don't see any other way.

> If the new serialization version can read binary archives from 1.42/43
> without any conversion (YES !!!), what is the purpose of the program
> you describe above? I'm still confused.

someone wrote:
>>>>> or does it make it so that serialization in
>>>>> 1.44 will be able to read binary archives from 1.42/43?
>>>
>>> No.

I wrote:
>> YES !!!

to re-phrase:  1.44 will not be able to read native binary archives created
with versions 1.42/1.43 because it will confuse them with those
written by 1.41.  This can be fixed by invoking a program included in
the distribute which will assign the correct library version #.  The those
files will be readable by version 144.

Robert Ramey