mercurial/thirdparty/cbor/README.rst
author Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc@gmail.com>
Mon, 24 Sep 2018 14:31:31 -0700
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storageutil: move metadata parsing and packing from revlog (API) Parsing and writing of revision text metadata is likely identical across storage backends. Let's move the code out of revlog so we don't need to import the revlog module in order to use it. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D4754

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This library provides encoding and decoding for the Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR)
(`RFC 7049`_) serialization format.

There exists another Python CBOR implementation (cbor) which is faster on CPython due to its C
extensions. On PyPy, cbor2 and cbor are almost identical in performance. The other implementation
also lacks documentation and a comprehensive test suite, does not support most standard extension
tags and is known to crash (segfault) when passed a cyclic structure (say, a list containing
itself).

.. _RFC 7049: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7049

Project links
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* `Documentation <http://cbor2.readthedocs.org/>`_
* `Source code <https://github.com/agronholm/cbor2>`_
* `Issue tracker <https://github.com/agronholm/cbor2/issues>`_