rust-bitcoin / rust-bitcoin/rust-bitcoin
Get rid of `serde` derivations
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Description
I would also like to get rid of the serde derives. Then we can finally get rid of syn and quote and friends.
And dependencies have a cost beyond compilation times. They also take time to review and are additional points of failure. (And all these things, including compilation times, are much worse for codegen depenendencies than for normal ones.)
Originally posted by @apoelstra in https://github.com/rust-bitcoin/rust-bitcoin/issues/4796#issuecomment-3168259289
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Research direction
Start by locating the serde derives and the syn and quote dependencies across the repository. Determine the scope of replacing or removing them, then verify that the library still builds and its existing tests pass without these code-generation dependencies.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- tooling
- Issue type
- Refactor
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100