Jeff Garland <jeff <at> crystalclearsoftware.com> writes:
Is anyone else interested in using Robert Ramey's serialization library for the purpose of marshalling data into pre-determined binary formats?
Yes. In particular, I believe a CDR (Common Data Representation), which is CORBA's binary format would be highly useful for network apps.
Yes, it's interesting. Looks simple enough from the basic descriptions I've found - is there an authoritative specification freely available? Or do you have sufficient access to the spec to answer my questions?
This is not related to serialization in a general sense, but employing the syntax and underlying fundamentals of the library, to a somewhat related purpose.
Well, I believe that one of the design changes that was requested in the first review. That is, to make the archive seperate from serialization -- and hence in the current version the Robert has created the boost/archive directory.
Yes, this is certainly the case - it's very little effort to change the behaviour.
This is a test program demonstrating what I'm doing - I'm interested to know if anyone else is doing anything similar... ... code snipped ...
I'm not building such a thing, but if you do I'm sure I'll use it. And your experiences in extending the library would be interesting for the upcoming re-review of serialization
Good, thanks for your interest. I hope to whip up enough support to convince Robert that this is generally useful - if I can get accepted, I'll never need to recreate this code *again*! Matt