what is missing for std.serialization?

[wilzbach]

From the review document I can see that your todo list was:

  My todo list looks like this:
       - write an overview documentation
       - improve the documentation for std.serialization.serializable to 
         indicate it's not required
       - implement a convenience function for serializing
       - implement a convenience function for serializing to a file
       - remove Serializeable
       - check only for "toData" when serializing
       - check only for "fromData" when deserializing
       - split Serializer in to two parts
       - make the parts structs
       - possibly provide class wrappers
       - split Archive in two parts
       - add range interface to Serializer and Archive
       - rename all archives to archivers
       - replace ddoc comments with regular comments for all package protected 
         symbols

is this still up-to-date and how can we best help you to improve this, s.t. it will eventually find its way to Phobos?

[jacob-carlborg]

What's been done is:

• split Serializer in to two parts
• split Archive in two parts
• rename all archives to archivers
• add range interface to Serializer and Archive (I think this is done)
• make the parts structs (partially, the serializer is a struct the rest are still classes)

Currently I'm in the process of updating the tests to use the serializer as a struct. I'm not sure how easy it is to work multiple developers on this at the current stage. The biggest issues is time, I've been mostly working on other projects. Later it will be very helpful with code review and implementing additional archivers.