[Arianne-devel] replacing Serializer

[Ulrich E. <doo...@kn...>]

From what I see in the current code, most network-transfer is text-based 
anyway. Therefore I propose making the standard network-message only contain 
a string (plus some other possibly), transmitted either with explicit 
length-field or with the string-typical zero-delimiter.
This will save us some trouble because:
- easier to debug
- less code to debug

We can use the same methods used for writing to disk to also write to a 
stringstream and later give the content to the networking-code for transfer.
Later we can (have to) still provide specialized binary versions for the 
networking or compress the strings with a stream-compressor (someone 
mentioned that bzip2 was not the proper tool for that, anyone remember which 
lib would be better?).

uli