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[Michael Barton <mike-launchpad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 5:24 PM, Samuel Merritt <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Perhaps one of the original developers will chime in here.
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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.