David Abrahams wrote:
2. Deserialization of derived classes through base class pointers is an incredibly important subject -- even for many first-time users -- but the instructions for handling it are buried deep in Reference > Serializable Concept > Pointers > Pointers to Objects of Derived Classes
(http://www.boost.org/libs/serialization/doc/serialization.html#derivedpointe...)
This material _needs_ to be in the tutorial! In fact, the material in the reference section is narrative and tutorial in nature, which seems inappropriate for a reference manual. Maybe you should just move it?
I went back and checked in the tutorial. Previously I had just taken your assertion that it wasn't in there at face value. Under Tutorial/Pointers in the table of contents there is a code snippet and link to the complete demo which shows the serialization of a polymorphic base class. The text doesn't specifically say its a pointer to a polymorphic base class though this is obvious from the link to the full example. So I think this concern can be addressed by enhancing the explanation in this section of the tutorial. Robert Ramey