[Distutils] toml

Chris Jerdonek chris.jerdonek at gmail.com
Tue Oct 28 15:43:41 CET 2014


On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 2:59 AM, holger krekel <holger at merlinux.eu> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 16:45 -0400, Daniel Holth wrote:
>> I liked it because I agree with the TOML author that the YAML spec
>> gives rage; YAML seems to be defined as a bunch of things that the end
>> user is supposed to think are intuitive, but try understanding and
>> correctly parsing the full set of what is allowed... TOML on the other
>> hand is short.
>
> Don't know but TOML could work well as a user facing config syntax.
> Seems to be reasonably well defined and more expressive than plain ini
> files.  Would be curious if it could be used for tox for example.

Daniel, Holger, et al., what is wrong with ini out of curiosity?

Thanks,
--Chris


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