[Distutils] comparison of configuration languages

[Wes Turner]

+1 for YAML

YAML-LD (YAML & JSONLD) would make expressing the actual graphs for what
could be "#PEP426JSONLD" much easier.

https://github.com/pypa/interoperability-peps/issues/31

On Saturday, May 7, 2016, Alex Grönholm <alex.gronholm at nextday.fi> wrote:

> +1. I don't think the pathological cases of YAML syntax are of any concern
> in this context. Plus it has excellent tooling support, unlike TOML.
>
> 07.05.2016, 09:25, Fred Drake kirjoitti:
>
>> On May 6, 2016, at 10:59 PM, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Here's that one-stop writeup/comparison of all the major configuration
>>> languages that I mentioned:
>>>
>>> https://gist.github.com/njsmith/78f68204c5d969f8c8bc645ef77d4a8f
>>>
>> Thank you for this!  A very nice summary.
>>
>> On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 11:14 PM, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
>>
>>> While I personally prefer YAML to any of the options on a purely syntax
>>> based
>>> level, when you weigh in all the other considerations for this I think
>>> that it
>>> makes sense to go with TOML for it.
>>>
>> I expect either YAML or TOML would be acceptable, based on this.  I'll
>> admit that I'd not heard of TOML before, but it warrants consideration
>> (possibly for some of my projects as well).
>>
>> I've spent a fair bit of time using YAML with Ansible lately, as well
>> as some time looking at RAML, and don't find myself worried about the
>> syntax.  Every oddness I've run across has been handled with an error
>> when the content couldn't be parsed correctly, rather than unexpected
>> behavior resulting from misunderstanding how it would be parsed.  It's
>> entirely possible I just haven't run across the particular problems
>> Donald has run across, though.
>>
>> (The embedded Jinja2 in Ansible playbooks is another matter; let's not
>> make that mistake.)
>>
>>
>>    -Fred
>>
>>
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