MessagePack for D released

[Masahiro Nakagawa]

On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 22:26:14 +0900, Andrei Alexandrescu  
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:

> On 04/25/2010 07:20 AM, Masahiro Nakagawa wrote:
>> I release a serialization library for Phobos(D2).
>>
>> Project repository: http://www.bitbucket.org/repeatedly/msgpack4d
>>
>> MessagePack is a binary-based serialization spec.
>> See official site for details: http://msgpack.sourceforge.net/
>> Some application replace JSON with MessagePack for performance  
>> improvement.
>>
>> msgpack4d ver 0.1.0 has an equal features with reference implementation.
>> * Zero copy serialization / deserialization
>> * Stream deserializer
>> * Support some D features(Range, Tuple)
>>
>> Currently, Phobos doesn't have a real serialization module(std.json
>> lacks some features)
>> I hope Phobos adopts this library for serialization(std.msgpack or
>> std.serialization?).
>
> This is great. Code looks very good and it's very generous of you to
> offer to contribute it to Phobos.
Thanks!

> There are a few details that could be changed to minimize repetition.
> For example, SimpleBuffer looks a lot like Appender!(ubyte[]). The
I forgot Appender. I removed SimpleBuffer struct and
used Appender!(ubyte[]) for SimpleBuffer alias.
(I think SimpleBuffer is a better name than Appender!(ubyte[]))

> DeflateBuffer and the FileBuffer look like great starting points for
> output range artifacts, though e.g. for FileBuffer we should call it
> something like BinaryFileWriter (as opposed to TextFileWriter) etc.
Oh, Your point is correct. FileBuffer was not Buffer.

Thank you very much for your code review.
Recent changes are here:
http://www.bitbucket.org/repeatedly/msgpack4d/changesets

> I suggest we hold a community review in this group and then most likely
> integrate this functionality into Phobos. All - let us know what you  
> think!
Ok, I wait for more reviews.