Orange 1.0.0 beta - serialization library

[Jacob Carlborg]

I've almost finished the rewrite of my serialization library Orange. I'm 
hoping that someone wants to give it a try and see what issues/bugs are 
found.

Project page: http://dsource.org/projects/orange
Source code: https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/orange

There are two usage examples on the project page. For more examples I 
recommend looking at the unit tests in the "tests" directory.

Description:

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 process. 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.

Features:

* Automatically serializes the base classes
* Supports events (before and after (de)serializing)

* Supports non-serialized fields and classes (you can say that some 
fields in a class should not be serialized)

* Licensed under the Boost license
* Std/runtime library independent

* Extendable - possible to create new archive types and use them with 
the existing serializer

* Serializes through base class references
* Serializes third party types

* Customization of the (de)serialization process, both intrusive and 
non-intrusive

* Properly (de)serializes slices and pointers

Known Issues/Limitations:

* Due to limitations in the XML module provided by Phobos the XMLArchive 
will only work with "char" as the template type with D2

* Due to several bugs/limitations in the compiler/runtime even the D2 
version requires you to register the type when serializing through base 
class references

* No built-in support for versioning
* Floating point numbers are not serialized as hexadecimal (D1)

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/Jacob Carlborg