Re: [boost] [serialization] proposed improvements: forward-compatibility of serialization

Subject: Re: [boost] [serialization] proposed improvements: forward-compatibility of serialization
From: Sohail Somani (sohail_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-04-15 16:26:58

On 2014-04-15, 2:59 PM, Andrzej Horoszczak wrote:
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>> From: Sohail Somani <sohail_at_[hidden]>
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>> This was a problem that interested me a few years ago so I made a
>> solution that worked with any archive and I presented it at BoostCon
>> (now CppNow). It was inefficient, hacky and required no modifications to
>> existing archives but forward compatibility did work so I know it is
>> completely possible.
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> Do you have a specific link handy ?  or do you perhaps remember project
> name so I could google it?

No I don't but I could probably dig up the presentation if you email me 
off-list and remind me.

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>> My immediate question would be whether you already have released code
>> for the products in question which complicates things a bit.
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> Fortunately we still have about 4-6 weeks before general release (-;
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>> The proposal itself doesn't seem impossible, at a
>> glance.
> Thanks - that's promising (-;
> I believe that this approach should be more efficient and more elegant
> that Google's Protocol Buffers.

I don't know enough about protocol buffers to say, TBH.

> And for us minimizing network traffic is of paramount importance.

The question is which feature of paramount importance is most important, 
especially with 4-6 weeks to general release!

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