From 5f3025d1afdbecdcba78a5b9ea374c8ac1e2ccd2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Curtis Vogt <curtis.vogt@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 08:53:50 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Compat for Serialization stdlib

---
 README.md        | 4 ++++
 src/Compat.jl    | 6 ++++++
 test/runtests.jl | 8 ++++++++
 3 files changed, 18 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index f2dba8404..6b11e010e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -122,6 +122,9 @@ Currently, the `@compat` macro supports the following syntaxes:
 * `using Compat.REPL` is provided on versions older than 0.7, where this library is
   not yet part of the standard library ([#25544]).
 
+* `using Compat.Serialization` is provided on versions older than 0.7, where this library is
+  not yet part of the standard library ([#25628]).
+
 ## New functions, macros, and methods
 
 * `@views` takes an expression and converts all slices to views ([#20164]), while
@@ -493,5 +496,6 @@ includes this fix. Find the minimum version from there.
 [#25544]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/25544
 [#25545]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/25545
 [#25571]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/25571
+[#25628]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/25628
 [#25629]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/25629
 [#25654]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/25654
diff --git a/src/Compat.jl b/src/Compat.jl
index 2b110b2c4..8c1efcb17 100644
--- a/src/Compat.jl
+++ b/src/Compat.jl
@@ -837,6 +837,12 @@ else
     import REPL
 end
 
+if VERSION < v"0.7.0-DEV.3476"
+    const Serialization = Base.Serializer
+else
+    import Serialization
+end
+
 # 0.7.0-DEV.1993
 @static if !isdefined(Base, :EqualTo)
     if VERSION >= v"0.6.0"
diff --git a/test/runtests.jl b/test/runtests.jl
index 494d86332..4944682d4 100644
--- a/test/runtests.jl
+++ b/test/runtests.jl
@@ -1190,6 +1190,14 @@ module TestREPL
     @test isdefined(@__MODULE__, :REPL)
 end
 
+# 0.7.0-DEV.3476
+module TestSerialization
+    using Compat
+    using Compat.Serialization
+    using Compat.Test
+    @test isdefined(@__MODULE__, :Serialization)
+end
+
 if VERSION < v"0.6.0"
     include("deprecated.jl")
 end