Robert Ramey wrote:
Can't you use boost python to call boost serialization from within
Well, I don't know python, and have never worked with boost.python. However, in response to your question I looked at the documentation for boost python. It would seem to me that making a small function to wrap serialization so it could be called from boost python should be investigated. It looks to me like a couple of hours work could solve save you days or weeks of work in parsing the XML archives. I can't believe its not worth the time to at least investigate. "Russell Hind" <rh_gmane@mac.com> wrote in message news:clieb6$u87$1@sea.gmane.org... python
via some wrapper function? wouldn't this make the whole process totally painless? I believe someone else, (I forgot whom) was doing this with good success.
Possibly, but I don't know python at all, and the people here who do use it don't know it brilliantly. The idea of using XML is so its basically text readable so they can understand the file format easily, but we do require some binary data otherwise the files would get too big so zipped XML seemed like a good option which is why when serialization was announced we decided that would help.
Personally, I'd stick to a pure binary format but describing a file format to them which has things like reference counting information and type information in it is no easy task.
It would be if the above could be made to wrk.
One day, we plan to provide dlls to access our files which would solve all problems,
Well, that's an optimistic assesment !
but we have other things as higher priority for now.
Thanks
Russell
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