Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] [RFC] PMT succession: experts' opinions on serialization libs

[Barry Duggan]

Just thinking outside the box here, but what about JSON? It is well 
defined, self documenting, easy to exchange between platforms and OS's, 
and supported natively by Python. Yes, it requires parsing, but I don't 
think that is a major drawback. Also it would not require any 
documentation to define how it works!

Cheers!
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Barry Duggan KV4FV

On Sat, 28 Sep 2019 23:01:36 +0200, Marcus Mueller wrote:

Dearest SDR Community with the Highest count of "Awesome" in the
Universe,

discussions at GRCon have made it abundantly clear that PMT needs to be
replaced¹.
Main issues with PMT are:

* broken type system,
* low suitability as tool for internal packeted data,
* lack of interoperability with anything but the languages we support
natively,
* platform-dependency of the serialization format,
* bugs.

(to a far lesser degree: performance.)

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