[RFC][BBC] New revision serializer

[Jelmer Vernooij]

Aaron Bentley wrote:
> Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
>>> Does this format look reasonable?
>> And once again I forget the attachment.. here it is.
> 
> My main question is about alternatives; did you consider using RIO or
> bencode?  If so, why is this better?  This looks close to RIO...
I was told bencode was mainly useful for encoding streams (e.g. network
traffic). I wasn't aware of RIO and it does indeed look very much like
what I ended up with, so it seems silly not to use it instead.

Thanks!

Cheers,

Jelmer