Robert Ramey <ramey <at> rrsd.com> writes:
The serialization library in 1.34 should be upward compatible with previous versions.
The version number has been incremented to support this. It is only for this reason that the number has been incremented. So rolling it back would be expected to cause problems.
Jared McIntyre wrote:
it is causing some problems with old code
I would not expect this. What kind of problems.
It is an issue of my own making. We still have quite a few released libraries built on boost 1.33. Our newer prototype version is 1.34 based. It is now generating files that can't be read by those older binaries. In my case, I am lucky enough that the format is actually compatibly, except for the version number and a couple previously non-existend lines (if I change the file to 3, and remove two lines, it all works). So, my problem is that we need to move to Boost 1.34, but I need a serialization library that interoperates with 1.33 serialization. I could hack my code to post-process the file, but it would be ugly.
Otherwise, has anyone tried using the old Serialization library in Boost 1.33?
I would guess that is what most people use now.
I phrased that horribly. I meant, has anyone tried to use the Boost 1.33 version in 1.34 (instead of the one that ships with it).