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Re: The lamentation of proplib(3)
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 23:22:16 +0100
From: Matthias Kretschmer <mccratch%gmx.net@localhost>
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 09:36:48PM +0000, Taylor R Campbell wrote:
> I'm inclined to say we ought to use protocol buffers -- it supports
> C-enforceable schemas, has been widely adopted in the world, and
> satisfies more or less all your desiderata. Parts of the wire format
> are a little wacky, but whatever. The only trouble is we'd have to
> write a C-only implementation, but that shouldn't be too hard.
What do you mean by C-only? Even though Google's "standard"
compiler generates C++ there is to-pure-C compiler [1]. If you
are referring to the language used to implement the compiler
then this is not an option as the compiler is implemented in
C++.
[1] https://code.google.com/p/protobuf-c/
When I took a glance at that it looked a little heavyweight, and I'm
not sure a C++ tool (in the `build.sh tools' sense) is appropriate.
But I only took a glance at it -- perhaps it would work out after all.
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