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

From: Jeff Flinn (TriumphSprint2000_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-06-05 08:48:07

Frank Birbacher wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Robert Ramey schrieb:
>> If someone really want's to make portable_binary_archive an "officially 
>> supported archive".  Then some way of testing is required.  This would 
>> require generating output on one platform and reading on another.  This is 
>> something that I couldn't figure out how to make BJAM do.
> 
> Well, you could just instead check whether the produced output is the 
> same everywhere. I thought of calculating the md5 sum and checking 
> against that. That would make a good unit test. Or am I missing something?

That's a great idea. We've been generating a test file with 
representative data for each of our platforms which are checked into 
source control. A unit test then checks all (3) files on each platform. 
The Md5 approach would negate the management of archive files.

Thanks, Jeff Flinn