enforce()?

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2010-06-25 17:40, Robert Jacques wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 08:54:54 -0400, Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2010-06-25 05:17, Sean Kelly wrote:
>>> Lutger<lutger.blijdestijn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Sean Kelly wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Sean Kelly Wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> While I've never worked on systems where lives hang in the balance,
>>>>>> I have
>>>>>> worked on systems where 100% uptime is required. I favor the Erlang
>>>>>> approach
>>>>>> where a system is a web of interconnected, redundant processes that
>>>>>> terminate
>>>>>> on errors. I've found this design an extremely hard sell in the
>>>>>> internet
>>>>>> server world though. The design takes more planning and people are
>>>>>> in too
>>>>>> much of a hurry.
>>>>>
>>>>> I should add that I'm hoping the message passing model in D will help
>>>>> encourage reliable system design. With thread isolation it should be
>>>>> pretty
>>>>> easy to move parts of a program into separate processes as need
>>>>> dictates.
>>>>
>>>> Can we look forward to seeing ipc supported in phobos via the same
>>>> interface in
>>>> the future? I really like the api you have created.
>>>
>>> Yes. The core send/receive API should work just fine for IPC, and it's
>>> definitely on the map. The greatest obstacle there is probably the need
>>> for a solid serialization/deserialization package in Phobos.
>>
>> I have a serialization library, http://dsource.org/projects/orange/ ,
>> this is a list of some its features:
>>
>> * It handles both serializing and deserializing
>> * It automatically serializes the base classes
>> * It supports events (before and after (de)serializing)
>> * It supports non-serialized fields (you can say that some fields in a
>> class should not be serialized)
>> * It's licensed under the Boost license
>> * It's fairly std/runtime library independent
>> * You can create new archive types and use them with the existing
>> serializer
>> * Serializes through base class references
>> * Serializes third party types
>>
>> Currently it only works using Tango but the only part of the library
>> that is dependent on the std/runtime library is XMLArchive, I'm
>> currently working on porting it to Phobos. It also needs testing.
>>
>> Also issue 2844 and the one, can't find it now, about getMembers is
>> not implemented at all (returns an empty array).
>>
>
> I'll volunteer to help test (and to add JSON capabilities) when you're
> ready.

It's ready to be tested with D1 and Tango. You can also start building a 
JSON archive, if you use D2 this will also make sure there is no other 
Tango dependencies (other than in XMLArchive). Let me no if you need any 
help.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg