From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@sympa.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@sympa.inria.fr Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by sympa.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 990A27FA87 for ; Wed, 18 May 2016 16:34:12 +0200 (CEST) IronPort-PHdr: 9a23:SFo8JBDQP/hhYT1UDWOJUyQJP3N1i/DPJgcQr6AfoPdwSP7+o8bcNUDSrc9gkEXOFd2CrakU2qyN6+u/AyQp2tWojjMrSNR0TRgLiMEbzUQLIfWuLgnFFsPsdDEwB89YVVVorDmROElRH9viNRWJ+iXhpQAbFhi3DwdpPOO9QteU1JTmkbvqsMKJKyxzxxODIppKZC2sqgvQssREyaBDEY0WjiXzn31TZu5NznlpL1/A1zz158O34YIxu38I46Fp34d6XK77Z6U1S6BDRHRjajhtpZ6jiR6WbwyJrl8BXmEfl1IcAQ/DxAv3VZDwtm39rOUriweAOsijV7EkVDiK765zUA7shT8bNjV/93vY2Z84t75SvB/0/083+IXTeozAcaMmJq4= Authentication-Results: mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr; spf=None smtp.pra=rixed@happyleptic.org; spf=None smtp.mailfrom=rixed@happyleptic.org; spf=None smtp.helo=postmaster@pim.happyleptic.org Received-SPF: None (mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr: no sender authenticity information available from domain of rixed@happyleptic.org) identity=pra; client-ip=5.135.156.187; receiver=mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="rixed@happyleptic.org"; x-sender="rixed@happyleptic.org"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible Received-SPF: None (mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr: no sender authenticity information available from domain of rixed@happyleptic.org) identity=mailfrom; client-ip=5.135.156.187; receiver=mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="rixed@happyleptic.org"; x-sender="rixed@happyleptic.org"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible Received-SPF: None (mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr: no sender authenticity information available from domain of postmaster@pim.happyleptic.org) identity=helo; client-ip=5.135.156.187; receiver=mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="rixed@happyleptic.org"; x-sender="postmaster@pim.happyleptic.org"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: A0CzAwCXfDxX/7uchwVegzdVFmi5cwENgXUahXcCCIEuOBQBAQEBAQEBAWQngi2CFgEBBDo/EAshJQ8FSYhGAcMtAQEBAQEFAQEBAQEiinKFIoJIgi4BBJgrhgCIFoFdZIxjj0keAQFCg29siAYBAQE X-IPAS-Result: A0CzAwCXfDxX/7uchwVegzdVFmi5cwENgXUahXcCCIEuOBQBAQEBAQEBAWQngi2CFgEBBDo/EAshJQ8FSYhGAcMtAQEBAQEFAQEBAQEiinKFIoJIgi4BBJgrhgCIFoFdZIxjj0keAQFCg29siAYBAQE X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.26,329,1459807200"; d="scan'208";a="218764118" Received: from pim.happyleptic.org ([5.135.156.187]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/AES128-GCM-SHA256; 18 May 2016 16:34:12 +0200 Received: from pim.happyleptic.org ([5.135.156.187]) by pim.happyleptic.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1b32Y6-0002sm-N3; Wed, 18 May 2016 16:34:10 +0200 Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 16:34:09 +0200 From: rixed@happyleptic.org To: Jon Ludlam Cc: Yaron Minsky , "caml-list@inria.fr" Message-ID: <20160518143409.GC10232@pim.happyleptic.org> References: <20160518134349.GA10232@pim.happyleptic.org> <20160518141715.GA6168@humongous> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160518141715.GA6168@humongous> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Subject: Re: [Caml-list] RPC for OCaml? -[ Wed, May 18, 2016 at 03:17:15PM +0100, Jon Ludlam ]---- > github.com/mirage/ocaml-rpc A very quick look at this a while ago gave me the impression that this was only a serializer. If so, then I must say I've always considered only two families of serializers: - legacy ones (json, protobuf...) for real situations - standard lib Marshal for tests But indeed there might be room for an ocaml-centric serializer with best-in-town type checking but that does not crash programs compiled with different versions of the compiler :-)