On Sat, 2010-08-07 at 17:19 +0200, Jacob wrote: > Is there any interest in having a serializer in Phobos? I have a serializer > compatible with D2 which I licensed under the Boost license. This is the > description from the project page: > > Orange is a serialization library for D1 and D2, supporting both Tango and > Phobos. It can serialize most of the available types in D, including third > party types and can serialize through base class references. It supports > fully automatic serialization of all supported types and also supports > several ways to customize the serialization. Orange has a separate front end > (the serializer) and back end (the archive) making it possible for the user > to create new archive types that can be used with the existing serializer. > > It's not very well tested but if there's some interest I'm hoping on getting > more people to test the library. The project page is: > http://dsource.org/projects/orange/
I agree (with everyone else) that Phobos should have a serialization lib. And now it seems we're spoilt for choices -- both Masahiro's MsgPack serializer and Jacob's Orange are more or less complete, working solutions being offered to us. I have very little experience with using serialization libs, so I have no idea how to determine which one is the better choice. How do we decide which one to use? Perhaps a vote on the NG? -Lars _______________________________________________ phobos mailing list [email protected] http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/phobos
