Re: [Boost-users] [Serialization] Boost 1.33 serialization constproblem

From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-12-18 14:11:16

vermaaso wrote:
> Hi Robert,
>
> I'm still working on running the tests. It looks like the
> serialization tests all passed, and currently I'm running all tests
> of the complete source tree. I noticed that a lot of tests in the
> type_traits have failed, but BOOST_IS_ABSTRACT should solve that,
> right ?

BOOST_IS_ABSTRACT "solves" it for the serialization library.  Actually
it would be better to say BOOST_IS_ABSTRACT works around
the issue for compilers which don't pass the is_abstract type trait test.

I made BOOST_IS_ABSTRACT so that
there would be an "is_abstract" trait for compilers which didn't support
the automatic one.  I don't know if BOOST_IS_ABSTRACT has been
used by other libraries for such a purpose.

I would expect that for compilers which support is_abstract related
type traits tests would fail but that libraries which depend upon
this trait would document usage of BOOST_IS_ABSTRACT is
permit the library to function inspite if lack of such a trait.  I don't
know if there are any libraries other than serialization which
require this.

Robert Ramey