[phobos] Interest in having a serializer in Phobos?

[Masahiro Nakagawa]

I think D should support language-specific serialization.
In particular, std.concurrency needs serialization function for object  
passing.
Orange seems to be one of the candidates.


Masahiro

On Sun, 08 Aug 2010 00:19:17 +0900, Jacob <doob at me.com> 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/
>
> /Jacob Carlborg
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