From: Russell Hind (rh_gmane_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-21 01:29:41
Robert Ramey wrote:
>
> The problem is that I want to add code that will handle the previous pointer
> version. My concern is that users might want to use 1.33 to read archives
> created under 1.32 and without this addition this won't be possible. I
> presume that some numbers of people would be effected by such a situation.
> If not I could just forget it.
>
We definitely need this too. Our default data file format is a
xml_archive, which contains many shared_ptr's. Backwards compatibility
is very important to us and if it isn't provided in 1.33, we won't be
upgrading.
Thanks
Russell