Peter Dimov wrote:
Frank Birbacher:
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?
(possibly embedded in the test source).
Damn - another good idea. This would resolve the problem I had before when I tried this which was related to maintaining other files, etc. Its not clear how easy this would work for binary files. Its clear that it would be a good thing to add to test a group of files serialized with every version of boost so that one could include tests for backward compatibility automatically. However, looks like a fair bit of effort to setup - but still - would be very useful. Robert Ramey