On 8 aug 2010, at 16:16, Lars Tandle Kyllingstad wrote: > 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.
Can MessagePack serialize an object? I'm looking at the website and can't see that is has direct support for that. > 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? I think one could create a MessagePack archive for my serializer. > -Lars > > _______________________________________________ > phobos mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/phobos _______________________________________________ phobos mailing list [email protected] http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/phobos
