Module import failing after $ dub add mypackage

[Mike Parker]

On Friday, 16 July 2021 at 16:54:18 UTC, Scotpip wrote:

> Yup - I have it running now but the code does seem to be a bit 
> neglected and I'm seeing a depreciation warning too. I chose it 
> because it's much the most downloaded serialisation package and 
> is used in a couple of other popular packages. But it seems to 
> be moribund...

The deprecation message is from the most recent dmd release:

https://dlang.org/changelog/2.097.0.html#body-deprecation

It's been a year since the last commit (which actually involved 
linking with winsock...), but I wouldn't write it off as near 
death just yet.

>
> I simply need a fast binary serialisation lib to read and write 
> a large list of structs to local disk - it's not for inter-app 
> communication. The struct is simple and only contains primitive 
> D data types. If you are aware of any package that would be a 
> better bet I'd appreciate your advice. Or is there a more 
> direct way to dump a list from memory to disk and read it back 
> again? This is the kind of low-level stuff that's rather new to 
> me...

I haven't had occasion to make use of any serialization libraries 
myself, but you can start here:

https://wiki.dlang.org/Serialization_Libraries