[pclasses-devel] s11n core coming to P :)

[stephan b. <st...@s1...>]

Yo!

Marc and i just had a long IRC discussion, and i can't believe i never 
thought of this earlier:

The s11n core itself is some 50 lines of code, so it will be trivial to 
plug it in directly to the P tree. i'll need to port in supporting 
algos and types, but i will not bring in the i/o layer (the biggest 
part, by far). i can swap out the factory layer with little work, as 
well. This will allow us to put serialization in place anywhere in P 
(where it's practical/useful), without an external dep on s11n. We can 
worry about the i/o layer later, either linking against s11n's, 
providing our own porting in s11n's i/o layer (which would need some 
serious rework, i think, to remove a lot of deps),or whatever. The 
important part of serialization is the core container framework - the 
actual stream i/o is a bonus.

The new module will be P::S11n, of course.

Unfortunately, the naming conventions in the s11n code won't all be 
easily sed'able to P naming conventions (try "grep s11n *" ;), and that 
will take some time to fix, but otherwise the port should be pretty 
straightforward.

An interesting thing about this is: by leaving out the i/o layer, we 
immediately lose the only platform-dependent part which s11n has! That 
means P::S11n will be inherently portable to all P-support platforms.

:)

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