Re: [Boost-users] Boost Serialization + Forward compatibility [was Re: boost::serialization and PHP websites]

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Boost Serialization + Forward compatibility [was Re: boost::serialization and PHP websites]
From: Kenny Riddile (kfriddile_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-05-30 15:52:08

Robert Ramey wrote:
> Sohail Somani wrote:
>> Robert Ramey wrote:
>>> Sohail Somani wrote:
>>>
>>>> Boost serialization currently does not elegantly handle forward
>>>> compatibility
>>> This would be doable if someone wanted to invest the effort.  And
>>> this would not be a huge effort at least in comparison to
>>> the efforts required to implement a lot of the other features of the
>>> library.
>> How would this be done (without breaking backward compatibility)? It
>> is kind of late so admittedly it might be totally obvious in the
>> morning.
>>
>> I also notice you have not mentioned anything about the 70 billion
>> dollar bailout for the serialization library and spreading the
>> wealth. I assume the cheque's in the mail.
> 
> I purposely overlooked that comment.  It seemed to be an
> attempt at some sort of criticism.  It's absolutely amazing to
> me how much I've been criticised (many times personally)
> for making this library.  I choose to interpret this as acknowledgement
> (and perhaps resentment) of its success.  It's my policy
> to ignore such comments which almost always results
> in the least amount of time wasted.  Occasionally this
> doesn't work so I have to waste more time. But generally
> this policy works well for me.
> 
> Robert Ramey 

I know you get a lot of questions about things that are clearly 
addressed in the serialization documentation (from myself too a few 
times).  I've even heard you called "that RTFM guy on the boost lists" a 
couple times :)  I couldn't handle maintaining such a widely-used 
library myself and would like to express my gratitude for tackling such 
a complex problem free of charge and creating something that has been 
very useful to us.