serialization library

[Christian Kamm]

>> What it does not do/is missing:
>
> Endian issues?

Oh, indeed. It does not take care of them yet. Additionally, classes are  
(if unregistered) identified by their mangled name, which might vary  
between compilers, I think.

> Just a wish list item, but I'd prefer an actual "file format" library as  
> opposed to a serialization library.  ...

I agree that it is not very well suited for writing/reading user data or  
files with a long life-expectancy. It is very nice for temporarily  
swapping data to disk and similar tasks, where the same process reads back  
the data it wrote to a file earlier.

A full-fledged "file format" library, while being something very useful  
I'd love to see as well, would be a project for another day though.

Christian