[boost] Re: Serialization Submission version 6

[Dirk Gerrits]

IIRC the old persistance library defined facilities for input and output using the RFC-1014 XDR: External Data Representation Standard. The new serialization library doesn't seem to include such archive classes and leaves it up to the user to write these.

Now I don't mean to dispute the decision, but I'd just like to know what the rationale for it was.

Secondly, I have a nit about the documentation. In the reference section about the 'Definition of New Archive Formats' it is said that:
'The archive format is specified by implementing the virtual functions of the base class.'

I think it would be clearer if the documentation also stated all those virtual functions that one should implement, so that the user wouldn't have to read archive.hpp. Perhaps a simple example should be provided. Say, a rot13 text stream or something.

Regards,
Dirk Gerrits



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