[GSoC] RFC: Thrift project proposal (draft)

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-03-25 00:46, David Nadlinger wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am putting together a Google Summer of Code project proposal regarding
> the Apache Thrift idea (see the ideas page[1]), which I intend to
> officially submit as soon as the application period opens. You can find
> my first draft at http://klickverbot.at/code/gsoc/thrift/.
>
> While I would love to hear any opinions, two specific questions:
>
> Walter, could you as the organization admin please have a look at this
> if it meets your formal expectations (the application template section
> of the Digital Mars GSoC profile is still empty)?
>
> Andrei, as you are the one behind the original suggestion, would you
> mind having a quick glance at the proposal? Do you have any experience
> with Thrift in production use from your work at Facebook?
>
> David
>
>
> P.S.: I am notoriously bad at writing »About me« sections, but from
> reading around a bit I figured a GSoC application should include one…
>
>
>
> [1] http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?GSOC_2011_Ideas

Don't know if this will be any problem with the Thrift protocol, 
specially since C++ is supported, but D has very limited runtime 
reflection support making it unnecessary hard to implement serialization.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg