Re: [boost] [serialization] Reading newer archives - was throwing unsupported_class_version, now crashes

Subject: Re: [boost] [serialization] Reading newer archives - was throwing unsupported_class_version, now crashes
From: Nikolay Mladenov (nikolay.mladenov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-06-25 14:58:46

Thanks for the response,

We have re-enabled this code in our company code and it does fix the
problem.

Thanks!

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Robert Ramey <ramey_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> Nikolay Mladenov wrote:
> > Hi Robert,
> >
> > I have been reading the recent thread  "Boost and  Exceptions" with
> > great interest.
> > There you discuss at some length the problems of introducing breaking
> > changes and library authoring in general.
> >
> > This reminded me that you have not yet adequately responded to the
> > problem posted in thread, so I decided to bump it up.
> >
> > Do you have any plans about acknowledging/fixing the problem ( a
> > breaking change)
> > discussed here and filed as ticked:
> > https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6856.
> >
>
> Hmmm - as I understand it, re-enableing the version # code would address
> your concern.  Am I correct?  I don't have object to doing this - the
> only reason I disabled it was that certain users had decided to overload
> the version # with other information like date.  This came up as a problem
> when I change the size of the version # in the binary file.  I suppose
> we can re-enable it now since this has likely been addressed by all
> users.  Let me know if that would address your issue. And re-enable
> it in your own copy of the library and verify that reallly IS the issue.
>
> Robert Ramey
>
>
>
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