On 12:09 am, glyph@twistedmatrix.com wrote:
On Apr 7, 2011, at 7:54 PM, Stephen Thorne wrote:
On 2011-04-07, Stefano Debenedetti wrote:
On Apr 7, 2011, at 1:08 AM, Tim Allen wrote:
If you need a non-Turing-complete config language and rule out .ini and XML, I'm not sure what's left. JSON, perhaps.
I bet a lot of people have a deja-vu feeling about a config file syntax debate so I'll propose an alternative approach: RDF.
I am +1 on this idea. I like rdf. My question is now: is there an rdf parser lib that is available on python2.4+ which can either be gently embedded within twisted, or used as a dependency?
We don't really need SparQL or anything complicated, just the ability to resolve some simple triples.
I do not like angle brackets, but I have always had a fond affection for n3.
You're welcome to try and do this; I'm not particularly interested in blocking it or holding it up, but I don't think that changing the input format actually solves any real problems. I guess I will hold it up if you can't convince me that I'm wrong about that, and demonstrate an actual problem that it solves :-). You still have to define all the same classes in order to get a plugin, unless we change some of that too - which has nothing to do with the metadata format at all.
I agree. I don't see how this addresses any of the problems with the current system which have been raised so far. Jean-Paul