Re: [Boost-users] 1_36 serialization... another issue...

From: Pete Bartlett (pete_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-06-30 16:35:20

>>>> shall I understand that it is not compatible with 1.35 ?
>>
>>> No, because there is a bug in 1.35
>>
>> Ok, thank you for this clear answer ! So (hopefully it is not a big  
>> issue in my case...) i will upgrade to 1.36 and give up a few old  
>> files...
>> Or write a small utility to upgrade files...
>>
>> From what I understood, the bug affects only the STL collections am  
>> I right ?

>Actually only std::vector of builtin types

Which are it has to be said very commonly used types!

It seems very worrying that 1.35 users are going to be deliberately broken
to help out <= 1.34.1 users who were broken accidentally. Is there really no
plan to help out users load their 1.35 files in 1.36? Even if this can't be
rectified within the library through a workaround, maybe a more independent
(standalone?) utility could be provided? I have no familiarity with the
internals of the library but if there is some way I can help in this regard,
I'd be happy to try.

Pete Bartlett