Re: [Boost-users] [serialization] portable serialization archive

From: Jeff Flinn (TriumphSprint2000_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-06-05 08:32:54

Robert Ramey wrote:
> the portible binary archive was really made to illustrate how to create a 
> new archive class from an existing one. It wasn't really the best example of 
> this but it was written up and added to the documentation.  It wasn't tested 
> and had some bugs.  When changes were made to binary archive- the portable 
> binary archive broke.  In the meantime, a user of serialization - Cadence 
> Design of Israel - offered to fund the fixing up of this class and permit 
> the updated version to be included in boost.  This happened.  They also 
> tested it on a wider variety of platforms.  So the one in the trunk is the 
> one to use.  It should compile with any version of boost.  There is a tiny 

Thanks Robert, we got the trunk version to compile/link/run on MSVC8 and 
Mac XCode3 Intel & PowerPC with 1.34.1. Doing so required copying 
boost_1_35_0 files: .../archive/shared_ptr.hpp and 
.../archive/detail/register_archive.hpp. We placed the pb i/o archive 
cpp's in our project code, which required adding a #include 
<boost/version.hpp>.

It'd be nice to see this added as a standard archive.

Jeff Flinn