On May 20, 2005, at 8:49 PM, Robert Ramey wrote:
I have one more thing I want to address.
I've checked in shared_ptr serialization which uses a new approach. This reconciles different view points on this topic. The new version passes all tests on most compilers.
The problem is that I want to add code that will handle the previous pointer version. My concern is that users might want to use 1.33 to read archives created under 1.32 and without this addition this won't be possible. I presume that some numbers of people would be effected by such a situation. If not I could just forget it.
As others have also said, breaking compatibility with archives created by 1.32 should be considered a bug (that will affect a lot of users). Please go ahead and make these changes. Doug