Robert Ramey wrote:
the portible binary archive was really made to illustrate how to create a new archive class from an existing one. It wasn't really the best example of this but it was written up and added to the documentation. It wasn't tested and had some bugs. When changes were made to binary archive- the portable binary archive broke. In the meantime, a user of serialization - Cadence Design of Israel - offered to fund the fixing up of this class and permit the updated version to be included in boost. This happened. They also tested it on a wider variety of platforms. So the one in the trunk is the one to use. It should compile with any version of boost. There is a tiny
Thanks Robert, we got the trunk version to compile/link/run on MSVC8 and
Mac XCode3 Intel & PowerPC with 1.34.1. Doing so required copying
boost_1_35_0 files: .../archive/shared_ptr.hpp and
.../archive/detail/register_archive.hpp. We placed the pb i/o archive
cpp's in our project code, which required adding a #include