On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Wouter Van Alboom <wouter.vanalboom@telenet.be> wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Beman Dawes" <bdawes@acm.org> To: "Boost Developers List" <boost@lists.boost.org> Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2011 2:12 PM Subject: [boost] Interest in simple unformatted binary stream I/O?
Is there interest in this for Boost?
Yes, this can be usefull.
It seems way too small and simple to be a whole library itself.
Should it also address Endianness?
No, that's a separate problem. It will be attacked by my Endian library, scheduled for review in September. Users of Endian in stream I/O are a motivation for a binary manipulator, but that doesn't mean they should be in the same library. There are plenty of use cases for a binary stream manipulator that doesn't traffic in endian integers. Thanks, --Beman