I was aware of bcp - but I had presumed it just went through the library headers and not through the individual *.cpp files. Now you're telling me bcp does this and I'll want to take a more careful look at this. The fact that this hasn't come up in this discussion suggests that I'm not alone in this. Maybe the source of our problem is that John Maddock is just too modest to flog his stuff. Addressing this would lead us to another ripe topic - updating/regorganizing the Boost web presence and organization to make it a more effective tool to promote our views - to the extent we can agree what our views are. Not wanting to hijack this thread, we'll leave this to another discussion. Robert Ramey -- View this message in context: http://boost.2283326.n4.nabble.com/modularization-spirtit-serialization-tp46... Sent from the Boost - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.