Kenny Riddile wrote:
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 should say that answering the question can sometimes be tedious. But usually its one of the more pleasurable aspects of being a library author. As I'm pretty familiar with the library, I can just answer of the top of my head so it's very easy. (But by the same token, the answers are sometimes incorrect - oh well). And questioners are grateful (Who wouldn't be after banking their head against the wall for a day). I'm always happy to incorporate improvements to the manual which are submitted as trak items. I've appended a section called "Tips and Tricks" or FAQ (I don't remember now). So if you wasted a lot of time on something that was in retrospect obvious, you're free to vent your frustration by submitting an item to that tlist.
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.
LOL - I would be happy to accept any compensation anyone want's to offer to salve any guilt consciences about getting such a great deal. In fact, I have on occasion made extensions to the library under contract. I'm a self-unemployed software developer and I've spent time on the library when I have nothing else to do. I answer question because I just like to chat. Robert Ramey