On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 02:58:59PM -0800, Robert Ramey wrote:
Of course if your company wants to hire me to add this, that might change the situation somewhat.
My company? I don't even have a job. I'm a full-time open source programmer, not getting paid a dime for what I do (all my projects are licensed GPL or QPL etc, and free for download from sourceforge and the like. Now before you ask how I make a living: I hardly do, I'm poor as hell. I understand if you don't have time, but please realize that I spend WAY more time on free software than you (...)
"What is the serialization library"
b) All the code need to construct archives and serializers along with useful implementation examples.
Of course it's both. But from my perspective it has to be b). My interest now runs to fixing the most arcane bugs, investigating performance issues, and improving the documentation to make it easier to do the kinds of things you mention.
Ok, that explains why STL iterators aren't supported (yet).
Of course I'm willing to give it a try, but I'll need help.
I'll ask questions on this list in order to be able to
write an implementation; hopefully someone will be able to
answer those questions.
Thanks,
Carlo Wood