[GSoC] RFC: Thrift project proposal (draft)

2011-03-24 Thread David Nadlinger
Hi all, I am putting together a Google Summer of Code project proposal regarding the Apache Thrift idea (see the ideas page[1]), which I intend to officially submit as soon as the application period opens. You can find my first draft at http://klickverbot.at/code/gsoc/thrift/. While I would

Re: [GSoC] RFC: Thrift project proposal (draft)

2011-03-24 Thread Robert Jacques
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 19:46:39 -0400, David Nadlinger wrote: Hi all, I am putting together a Google Summer of Code project proposal regarding the Apache Thrift idea (see the ideas page[1]), which I intend to officially submit as soon as the application period opens. You can find my first

Re: [GSoC] RFC: Thrift project proposal (draft)

2011-03-25 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2011-03-25 00:46, David Nadlinger wrote: Hi all, I am putting together a Google Summer of Code project proposal regarding the Apache Thrift idea (see the ideas page[1]), which I intend to officially submit as soon as the application period opens. You can find my first draft at http://klickver

Re: [GSoC] RFC: Thrift project proposal (draft)

2011-03-25 Thread David Nadlinger
Hello Robert, thank you for taking the time to read my proposal. On 3/25/11 5:48 AM, Robert Jacques wrote: First and foremost, I would strongly recommend against looking at Thrifts internals; if you do, the project _should not_ be submitted to Phobos. (Thrift is Apache License 2.0 which isn't c

Re: [GSoC] RFC: Thrift project proposal (draft)

2011-03-25 Thread David Nadlinger
On 3/25/11 3:04 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: Don't know if this will be any problem with the Thrift protocol, specially since C++ is supported, but D has very limited runtime reflection support making it unnecessary hard to implement serialization. Thrift and other, similar projects (like Google's

Re: [GSoC] RFC: Thrift project proposal (draft)

2011-03-25 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2011-03-25 15:28, David Nadlinger wrote: On 3/25/11 3:04 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: Don't know if this will be any problem with the Thrift protocol, specially since C++ is supported, but D has very limited runtime reflection support making it unnecessary hard to implement serialization. Thri

Re: [GSoC] RFC: Thrift project proposal (draft)

2011-03-26 Thread Don
David Nadlinger wrote: Hello Robert, thank you for taking the time to read my proposal. On 3/25/11 5:48 AM, Robert Jacques wrote: First and foremost, I would strongly recommend against looking at Thrifts internals; if you do, the project _should not_ be submitted to Phobos. (Thrift is Apache L

Re: [GSoC] RFC: Thrift project proposal (draft)

2011-03-26 Thread David Nadlinger
On 3/26/11 5:16 PM, Don wrote: I'm giving CTFE a *major* overhaul right now. I don't know if I'll be finished in time for the next compiler release, but definitely by the release after that. Most importantly, bug 1330, which is the root cause of almost all of the problems, will be fixed. I hope t

Re: [GSoC] RFC: Thrift project proposal (draft)

2011-03-26 Thread bearophile
Don: > I'm giving CTFE a *major* overhaul right now. Thank you Don, you are doing a lot for the improvement of the D compiler :-) > Most importantly, bug 1330, which is the root cause > of almost all of the problems, will be fixed. I hope to move CTFE out > the "experimental feature" category

Re: [GSoC] RFC: Thrift project proposal (draft)

2011-03-26 Thread Don
David Nadlinger wrote: On 3/26/11 5:16 PM, Don wrote: I'm giving CTFE a *major* overhaul right now. I don't know if I'll be finished in time for the next compiler release, but definitely by the release after that. Most importantly, bug 1330, which is the root cause of almost all of the problems,

Re: [GSoC] RFC: Thrift project proposal (draft)

2011-03-26 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 3/26/11 3:01 PM, Don wrote: David Nadlinger wrote: On 3/26/11 5:16 PM, Don wrote: I'm giving CTFE a *major* overhaul right now. I don't know if I'll be finished in time for the next compiler release, but definitely by the release after that. Most importantly, bug 1330, which is the root caus

Re: [GSoC] RFC: Thrift project proposal (draft)

2011-03-26 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 3/24/11 4:46 PM, David Nadlinger wrote: Hi all, I am putting together a Google Summer of Code project proposal regarding the Apache Thrift idea (see the ideas page[1]), which I intend to officially submit as soon as the application period opens. You can find my first draft at http://klickverb

Re: [GSoC] RFC: Thrift project proposal (draft)

2011-03-26 Thread Don
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 3/26/11 3:01 PM, Don wrote: David Nadlinger wrote: On 3/26/11 5:16 PM, Don wrote: I'm giving CTFE a *major* overhaul right now. I don't know if I'll be finished in time for the next compiler release, but definitely by the release after that. Most importantly, bug

Re: [GSoC] RFC: Thrift project proposal (draft)

2011-03-27 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 03/27/2011 12:25 AM, Don wrote: Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 3/26/11 3:01 PM, Don wrote: David Nadlinger wrote: On 3/26/11 5:16 PM, Don wrote: I'm giving CTFE a *major* overhaul right now. I don't know if I'll be finished in time for the next compiler release, but definitely by the releas

Re: [GSoC] RFC: Thrift project proposal (draft)

2011-03-28 Thread David Nadlinger
I just revised the proposal and submitted it via Google's official interface, so don't be confused if you can't find it on my website any longer. David