Tango and the Hackontest

[Lars Ivar Igesund]

Bill Baxter Wrote:

> Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:
> > I have registered Tango for the Hackontest [1], a Google sponsored
> > competition for open source projects. Unlike Google Summer of Code, this
> > project seems to have its participants decided by an independent jury, and
> > so we probably have a bigger chance at being accepted. Maybe enough
> > community activty (suggest features for implementation, voting, ...) will
> > do it. In any case, this can be a great show case for D, and I recommend
> > all to take a look, register and make a vote.
> > 
> > http://www.hackontest.org/index.php?action=Root-projectDetail%2835%29
> > 
> > Contest prizes will go to those doing the actual coding.
> 
> How about a serialization API?  Tango doesn't have one of those yet does 
> it?
> 
> (Just throwing the idea out here, because it will look silly if I 
> suggest it on the hackontest site when it already exists!)

The IO protocol package is for explicit serializing, but I'm aware that many don't think this is serialization. Automatic serialization is afaik implemented in a few variations, Tom's (h3r3tic)  xpose comes to mind, but we find the lack of flexibility imposed by D to be too limiting to include such a solution just yet.

So to conclude, I don't think it will be a useful project to propose for the Hackontest at least.

Lars Ivar