10.05.2016, 19:35, Ethan Furman kirjoitti:
On 05/10/2016 08:41 AM, Alex Grönholm wrote:
10.05.2016, 18:26, Ethan Furman kirjoitti:
Please no. I'd rather do xml than yaml.
Why do you hate it so much? I strongly prefer YAML to anything else I've seen here.
It's too complicated and error-prone. If we want buy-in from casual packagers then our configuration language needs to be simple to understand and simple to get right. (The amount of leading whitespace on a single line changes your data type? Really?? 0644 and 0x644 both map to 420? and 644 maps to 644?) Do you actually expect to use these in your project's configuration? No? Then why is this a problem for you in this case?
https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/troubleshooting/yaml_idiosyncras...
https://ciaranm.wordpress.com/2009/03/01/yaml-sucks-gems-sucks-syck-sucks/
While YAML is more easily readable than XML, with XML you already know you're in hell so you tread more carefully. ;)
If we want to take the good ideas of YAML and make our own thing I'm okay with that -- but not YAML itself.
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