Re: Technical Excellence?

From: Brook Milligan (brook_at_[hidden])
Date: 2024-03-28 21:23:08

Hi Robert,

I’m sorry you are feeling that Boost.Serialization might be EOL.  I actually do use it and have found its stability to be a great selling point over the years.  I confess that I’m not a retro-compiler person so I personally don’t use any old compat code, but particularly in this case I expect many others might.  Of course, it is your decision I suppose, but it would be a great loss were the library to be deprecated.

Thanks for your steady work on it.

Cheers,
Brook

> On Mar 28, 2024, at 12:46 PM, Robert Ramey via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> 
> On 3/28/24 7:01 AM, Vinnie Falco via Boost wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 2:34 PM Robert Ramey via Boost <
>> boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> 
>>> I would like to see suggestions as to how we could get usage statistics
>>> on boost libraries.
>>> 
>> 
>> Yes, this is an important area of analysis for which no perfect solution
>> exists. However, researchers at The C++ Alliance have developed an
>> experimental technique which offers hope for newly submitted libraries.
> 
> Actually, I was thinking more of existing libraries.  Case in point.  I
> get relatively little feedback on the boost serialization library.  It's
> been 20+ years. Initially it was almost alone.  But now there are lots
> of alternatives. Serialization has never been proposed for the standard.
> It has few "stars" on github. I'm wondering if it's even used any more.
> It's becoming increasingly out of sync with evolving boost tools and
> hence more effort to maintain.  Perhaps it's time to deprecated it or
> remove it from boost.
> 
> Robert Ramey
> 
> 
> 
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