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

From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-06-05 10:15:56

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?

LOL, This is way too simple for me to have thought of.  We'll look into it.

Robert Ramey

>
> Frank