Re: [boost] [modularization] Extract xml_archive from serialization

Subject: Re: [boost] [modularization] Extract xml_archive from serialization
From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-09-17 23:14:54

On Wednesday 17 September 2014 14:24:28 Robert Ramey wrote:
> Stephen Kelly-2 wrote
> 
> > Robert Ramey wrote:
> >> The "correct" solution to the above is for date-time to build
> >> two modules:  date-time and date-time-serialization.
> > 
> > Is this "at the expense of everyone who wants to ship datetime with
> > support
> > for serialization in the package"? Is that 'non-obvious' too? Is this a
> > net-
> > positive?
> 
> I think its a much smaller number of people.
> 
> anyone who explicitly includes date-time/serialization.hpp will know that
> he has to ship the data-time-serialization.dll.

Just to be closer to reality, serialization support in DateTime is header-
only.