Re: [boost] [serialization] patching 1.43 for the version numberingissue

Subject: Re: [boost] [serialization] patching 1.43 for the version numberingissue
From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-07-27 19:25:32

Ryan Gallagher wrote:
> Hi Robert,
>
> As we were discussing the other day, I'd like to just patch my 1.43
> release to fix the serialization library versioning issue so that
> my archives created with it won't need to have the utility run on
> them for 1.44+ to understand them.  I just want to verify with you
> that changing the version number in
> serialization/src/basic_archive.cpp
> is all that's needed.
>
> In your recent trunk change you increased the version for 1.44 to '8':
>
> https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/changeset/64157
>
> However, the 1.43 source seems to have version '7' already.  I must
> be missing something as I don't see how binary archived were using
> library version '6' for 1.42/43.

My understanding is that the last version # used before 1.44 is 6 and
the only way the 7 should be found there is if fix_six is executed
on that archive.

To summarize:
1.41 version 5
1.42 version 6
1.43 version 6 - change to 7 with fix_six
1.44 version 8

Robert Ramey

>
> Thanks,
>
> -Ryan
>
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