[Distutils] PEP 516 and pypa.json

[Daniel Holth]

I'm still pulling for RFC 822 format :)

On Thu, Feb 18, 2016, 14:33 Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 9:06 AM, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> > Greetings!
> >
> > I saw PEP-0516 go through check-ins, and had a question about the
> pypa.json
> > portion of the proposal -- namely, why are we using a .json file?
> >
> > I presume this is a file that will be created by hand, and while json is
> not
> > as ugly as xml, it's certainly not pretty.
> >
> > Can we not use an .ini file, or a white-space significant format?  The
> > latter should be familiar, if not comfortable, to any Python programmer.
>
> These are still draft proposals, and the actual file format is the
> least interesting question to discuss. Think of the JSON thing as
> being a placeholder for now :-).
>
> There is no obvious solution, because .ini files are extremely
> underspecified, nothing else is in the stdlib, yaml contains its own
> share of gibbering horrors, toml is not widely used and is associated
> with an extremely divisive figure, etc. etc. Don't worry, though:
> there will be bikeshedding. Ideally *after* the more substantive
> issues are settled :-)
>
> -n
>
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> Nathaniel J. Smith -- https://vorpus.org
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