Hello Robert, I think a 'finished' protable_binary_oarchive/ protable_binary_iarchive would be very useful for network applications (passing message structures -> header, body, trailer). I'm not familiar with boost::serialization (my first look into it) - I see some specializations of load for integral types an a templated member function for all others. Serialisation for std::strings and chars are supported in a portable manner? Only floating point types have to be implemented for portability? Oliver
I made it as an example on how to extend the library by deriving from an existing archive. To "finish" it would require implementing serialization of floating point types in a portable manner and this turns out to be a non-trivial task. Implementing this would be too much work and would sort of compromise illustrative value of the example.