Hi Robert, Robert Ramey wrote: [...]
So the net effect is
Everyone who want's to wrap his "arrays" in boost::serialization::array is free to do so. Archive classes which don't have special code for such arrays just pass it to the library by default which eventually resolves to an item by item serialization.
Archives which have facilities suitable for handling arrays in a special way can overload save_override(boost::serialization::array ... and do thier thing.
No currently existing archives need be changed.
I like this a lot! Of course there are details to work out, but as far as I can tell everything that has been mentioned as a possible array-aware archive is possible within this framework. I will leave those details for Dave and Matthias, who I expect will also be excited about this development. Best regards, Ian