[Development] QDataStream: blackbox or document all versions?

[Thiago Macieira]

On segunda-feira, 26 de setembro de 2016 10:40:02 PDT Michael Winkelmann 
wrote:
> I think what Qt is lacking is a good serialization module like cereal or
> boost serialization.
> With this pattern, QDataStream would be just another archive format,
> like JSON or XML.
> Cereal has portable and unportable binary for endianness.

Having worked with Cereal on another project, I don't think that's a good 
approach. Serialising to different protocols and formats is not something that 
can be properly abstracted. Not if you want to produce a schema that the other 
side expects.

If you're going to serialise something that only you will read, then 
QDataStream is already sufficient.

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