Sebastian Ramacher said: (by the date of Mon, 28 May 2007 16:47:49 +0200)
As of version 1.34, Boost.PtrContainer supports serialization as defined by Boost.Serialization. Now I'd like to propose a switch to disable this feature. The attached patch adds checks if BOOST_PTR_CONTAINER_NO_SERIALZATION is defined around the serialization related code blocks and enables/disables serialization support.
It's not that I don't like serialization support but on a Debian system you have to install libboost-serialization-dev and libboost-serialization1.34.0 just to use Boost.PtrContainer.
That's an interesting problem. What should be the policy about serialization support: 1. the serializaiton support is written in a boost library outside of boost::serialization (the case here), 2. or should it be written only inside the boost::serialization library (frequent case with other libraries). So that a non-serialization library will not pull serialization by header dependencies... ? -- Janek Kozicki |