Re: [Boost-users] [serialisation]Portable Binary Archives, distributed processing, a small comment on B.Asio

Note that boost has reviewed and accepted an MPI library in which much effort was expended to address these issues along with others. Of course Boost Serialization has never been proposed nor promoted as the solution to every problem. The stated goals preclude that in any case. Its a good solution if you have the problem its designed to address. It has been a good solution for lots of problems that were not originally contemplated. The fundamental goal was/is to serialize anything that can be represented in C++. This would generally preclude guarenteeing a format which could be read by something like Visual Basic for example. It is what it is rather than something else. Robert Ramey