On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 5:24 PM, Samuel Merritt <sam at swiftstack.com> wrote: Perhaps one of the original developers will chime in here. > All I can really say is that when that decision was made, there was no inkling that portability would ever be a concern. Pickle was fast and effective. Switching it to json should work fine, if someone wants to put in the work. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack/attachments/20130406/7c13bf8a/attachment.html>