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Date: 2012-06-08T17:29:35+01:00
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"Peter C. Chapin" <PChapin@vtc.vsc.edu> writes:

> On 2012-06-06 15:17, Simon Wright wrote:
>
>>> http://msgpack.org/
>>>
>>> It is not complete in the sense that it covers only the serialization
>>> part (and even there has many limitations), but for a number of
>>> problems seems like a nice and easy, off-hand solution. Yes, the Ada
>>> binding is missing there.
>>
>> I'm thinking I need a project; would anyone be interested in an Ada
>> binding?
>
> One middleware system I've used before is Ice
> (http://www.zeroc.com). I'd love to see an Ada binding to it.

That looks like a large-ish project. As of Feb 2011 there was no
documentation on how to approach such a project[1].

MessagePack seems to be similarly lacking. There's a singular lack of
comments in the source, I guess it's all obvious if you're a Ruby
guru. But at least the object format is defined!

[1] http://www.zeroc.com/forums/projects/5267-d-language-bindings.html