Re: [boost] Candidate for 1.66.1, if there is one

Subject: Re: [boost] Candidate for 1.66.1, if there is one
From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-12-23 17:19:23

On 12/23/17 9:08 AM, James E. King, III via Boost wrote:
> Two ways I can see doing this:
> 
> 1. Craft a version 0 output stream manually or with the help of
> serialization code directly in the test, then read it in.

actually you'd need test archives for ALL previous verisions.  This 
would be quite a thing to manage.

> 2. Typically the conditionals for version are on the load() side; is there
> a way to tell archive to:
>          ar << use_version<boost::posix_time::ptime, 0>() <<
> ptime(some_value)
>      and add conditional code to the save() code path so that it would write
> out a version 0 like the previous release did?
>      I'm not sure it's typical to see the version number actually used in
> the save() code path.
>      That would be pretty useful and allow for understandable unit tests,
> but I don't know how easy it would be to implement.

The capability to produce previous versions of an archive has be 
requested multiple times.  The first few times I was dismissive of the 
idea.  One I was goaded into looking into it, I could see that it was in 
fact doable and there was a natural interface through the archive 
opening flags.  In other words, it was possible to implement this 
without turning the whole serialization library into an unholy mess - 
assuming one doesn't believe that it already is.  But still a lot of 
tricky work, large increment in testing, etc.

And as one might imagine, I would be reluctant to undertake a large 
investment of effort to implement an enhancement to the library which 
would be of value to only a few people.  Of course if someone where to 
offer me (a lot) of money ...

Robert Ramey

> 
> - Jim
> 
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