[Distutils] .ini vs JSON vs YAML meta data format (Was: Simplify 426: Deprecate Author-email and Maintainer-email)

[Vinay Sajip]

>This one is huge and requires example to be run to see the actual error. Is that a minimal example? I don't even have an idea fails there.


Obviously small files might work, but that's no help. I didn't have the time to spend to make the example smaller. It is not *that* large, but it is the size of metadata that we have to handle. There are plenty of other issues on the tracker relating to dumping()/loading().

>Google AppEngine uses it. Ansible uses it. I'd like to know more about that.


That doesn't matter. For dealing with packaging metadata (the application I was using it for) it failed (on more than a trivial number of metadata samples) and that means it's not currently fit for the purpose under discussion.
Regards,

Vinay Sajip