Re: [boost] boost serialization backwards compatibility ofbinary archives broken

Subject: Re: [boost] boost serialization backwards compatibility ofbinary archives broken
From: Markus Henschel (markus.henschel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-02-21 12:00:18

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Boost [mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Robert
> Ramey
> Sent: Donnerstag, 21. Februar 2013 17:36
> To: boost_at_[hidden]
> Subject: Re: [boost] boost serialization backwards compatibility ofbinary
> archives broken
> 
> Markus Henschel wrote:
> >
> > P.S.:
> >  But what I find
> > strange is that you leave the bug reports open. If you have the
> > impression they cannot be fixed you could have just closed them with a
> > comment in there that nothing can be done.
> 
> I left them open because I really wasn't sure what to say about them.
> 
> One thing I left out in my original answer was that I tried to address this and it
> sort of made things worse.  That is, when I "fixed" one case - another case
> broke.  It was whack-a-mole.
> 
> Sometimes the reporter isn't convinced by my answer and re-opens the
> report after I closed it.  In order to avoid a war of closing/re-opening I just
> leave them open.
> 
> Robert Ramey
> >
> >
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You didn't comment any part of my mail that proposed a fix for compatibility of archives prior to 1.42. Does that mean that you consider this issue solved or will you look into that later?

Thanks

Markus