std.serialization: pre-voting review / discussion

[ilya-stromberg]

On Wednesday, 14 August 2013 at 14:34:58 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
wrote:
> On 2013-08-14 16:15, ilya-stromberg wrote:
>
>> I think we should avoid mixins as much as it possible.
>> UDA @nonSerialized looks much better, so I think we should use 
>> it.
>> Of course, we can leave template NonSerialized(Fields...) for 
>> backwards
>> compatible with Orange and, maybe, deprecate it.
>
> Of course UDA's should be the primary use for this. The 
> question is should NonSerialized be included at all? Should it 
> be included and deprecated or should it just be included?

I did not use Orange at all.
But the most terrible for library is losing backwards 
compatiblity. So, if Orange uses NonSerialized, we have to 
include it. We can just add documentation notice that 
NonSerialized will be deprecated after, for example, 6 months.