Re: [boost] Making two Boost libraries interoperate

Subject: Re: [boost] Making two Boost libraries interoperate
From: Andrzej Krzemienski (akrzemi1_at_[hidden])
Date: 2019-04-24 15:42:53

śr., 24 kwi 2019 o 17:17 Peter Dimov via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]>
napisał(a):

> Andrzej Krzemienski wrote:
>
> > However, I do not understand what you do not find the situation
> > symmetrical.
>
> The situation is asymmetrical because there are many thousands of
> user-defined types, but only a handful of serialization frameworks.
>
> In principle. In practice, taking a dependency on Boost.Serialization
> isn't
> desirable because it brings in half of Boost. Ideally, one ought to have
> been able to provide serialization support without including anything from
> Serialization, but I've been singing this song for more than ten years now
> and nobody's listening.
>

Indeed, if we had that in place my concerns would be moot.

Regards,
&rzej;