Gennadiy Rozental <gennadiy.rozental <at> thomson.com> writes:
I am missing your point. What intermediate representation you need? IOW What is wrong with multi_index + serialize library for what you need?
One thing that property_tree (PT) seems to do is to, from an end-user's viewpoint, handle simple and quite complex data and configuration files in textual format in a straight-forward manner. This is very nice and goes hand in hand with the old unix tradition. To me it is overkill to bring into two complex libraries like multi_index and serialize to handle a "simple" config file. By the way, is it even possible to have serialize work with textual files or does it always use a binary format? If so, the combination of multi_index and serialize is disqualified for a simple config file. /Rune