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John Ericson cb5052d98f Revert "Revert "Use template structs instead of phantoms""
This is the more typically way to do [Argument-dependent
lookup](https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/adl)-leveraging
generic serializers in C++. It makes the relationship between the `read`
and `write` methods more clear and rigorous, and also looks more
familiar to users coming from other languages that do not have C++'s
libertine ad-hoc overloading.

I am returning to this because during the review in
https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/6223, it came up as something that
would make the code easier to read --- easier today hopefully already,
but definitely easier if we were have multiple codified protocols with
code sharing between them as that PR seeks to accomplish.

If I recall correctly, the main criticism of this the first time around
(in 2020) was that having to specify the type when writing, e.g.
`WorkerProto<MyType>::write`, was too verbose and cumbersome. This is
now addressed with the `workerProtoWrite` wrapper function.

This method is also the way `nlohmann::json`, which we have used for a
number of years now, does its serializers, for what its worth.

This reverts commit 45a0ed82f0. That
commit in turn reverted 9ab07e99f5.
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m4 autoconf: Fix C++17 detection not working on Ubuntu 16.04. 2019-07-03 04:32:25 +02:00
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misc Add a setting for configuring the SSL certificates file 2023-03-17 18:32:18 +01:00
mk Dedup some markdown -> C++ big literal stuff in build system 2023-05-15 10:38:11 -04:00
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src Revert "Revert "Use template structs instead of phantoms"" 2023-05-17 22:44:47 -04:00
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boehmgc-coroutine-sp-fallback.diff Always disable GC in a coroutine unless the patch is applied 2023-04-07 14:54:38 +02:00
bootstrap.sh bootstrap: Simplify & make more robust. 2011-09-06 12:11:05 +00:00
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COPYING * Change this to LGPL to keep the government happy. 2006-04-25 16:41:06 +00:00
default.nix add flake-compat to flake.nix and use sha256 in default.nix 2023-03-06 21:11:24 +01:00
docker.nix fix "add an option to include flake-registry..." 2023-05-16 14:35:31 +02:00
flake.lock add flake-compat to flake.nix and use sha256 in default.nix 2023-03-06 21:11:24 +01:00
flake.nix fix failing configure in nix-tests 2023-04-09 02:33:53 +02:00
local.mk Enable -Werror=switch-enum 2023-04-03 18:45:20 +02:00
Makefile Generate API docs with Doxygen 2023-03-10 12:51:06 -05:00
Makefile.config.in Generate API docs with Doxygen 2023-03-10 12:51:06 -05:00
precompiled-headers.h Config: Use nlohmann/json 2020-08-20 11:02:16 +02:00
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Nix

Open Collective supporters Test

Nix is a powerful package manager for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible. Please refer to the Nix manual for more details.

Installation

On Linux and macOS the easiest way to install Nix is to run the following shell command (as a user other than root):

$ curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh

Information on additional installation methods is available on the Nix download page.

Building And Developing

See our Hacking guide in our manual for instruction on how to to set up a development environment and build Nix from source.

Additional Resources

License

Nix is released under the LGPL v2.1.