Re: [Gzz] Let's NOT use serialization!!!!

[Benja Fallenstein]

Benja Fallenstein wrote:

> Tuomas Lukka wrote:
>
> > so I'm still in favour of using it.
>
> I'm in favor of using the YAML serializer I've just written in two 
> days (as opposed to multiple weeks). Ok, it may not be so good 
> performance-wise (it's using Jython because the Python YAML module is 
> under a free license and the Java one isn't yet), but it's 
> human-readable and independent from Java and it can cope with changes 
> in our source tree without changing the serialization format and it 
> guarantees that the same SliceVersion is always serialized to exactly 
> the same bytes and, not least of all, it *WORKS*. 

Forgot to say-- but of course you *can* still use serialization-- things 
are modular enough, and I didn't remove the code for that. Though we 
probably want only one format when we start using a central repository 
again.

-b.