Re: [Boost-users] [serialisation]Portable Binary Archives, distributed processing, a small comment on B.Asio

From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-06-27 18:08:08

Note that boost has reviewed and accepted an MPI library
in which much effort was expended to address these issues
along with others.

Of course Boost Serialization has never been proposed
nor promoted as the solution to every problem.  The stated
goals preclude that in any case.  Its a good solution if you
have the problem its designed to address.  It has been
a good solution for lots of problems that were not
originally contemplated.

The fundamental goal was/is to serialize anything that
can be represented in C++.  This would generally preclude
guarenteeing a format which could be read by
something like Visual Basic for example.

It is what it is rather than something else.

Robert Ramey