[Haskell-cafe] The state of binary (de)serialization

[Alexander Solla]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Johan Tibell <johan.tibell at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> There are some blog posts and comments out there about merging cereal
>> and binary, is this what's the goal/going on (cfr runGetIncremental)?
>>
>
> It's most definitely the goal and it's basically done. The only thing I
> don't think we'll adopt from cereal is the instances from container types.
>

Why not?  Those instances are useful.  Without instances defined in
binary/cereal, pretty much every Happstack (or, better said, every
ixset/acidstate/safecopy stack) user will have to have orphan instances.

Also, cereal has a generic instance.  Will the new binary?
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