Orange - a serialization library

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2010-07-27 17:30, dsimcha wrote:
> == Quote from Jacob Carlborg (doob at me.com)'s article
>> This if the first release of the Orange serialization library. Here is a
>> short description of the library:
>> 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.
>> http://dsource.org/projects/orange
>
> Nice work!  I'll try it out eventually, but right now I've been too busy with
> stuff that doesn't require serialization.  This is another nice little library
> that would be useful to a lot of people but has "dependency hell" written all over
> it if D users are generally required to go out and install small misc. pieces of
> functionality like this themselves.  IMHO eventually serialization belongs in the
> std. lib and seeing that Orange is Boost licensed, once some of the XML and
> compiler issues are fixed, this may be a good candidate.

Thanks. I'm more than happy to make the necessary changes to include 
Orange in Phobos.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg