[Distutils] comparison of configuration languages

[Wes Turner]

TOML-LD might work for representing JSONLD, as well.

http://json-ld.org/#developers

* https://github.com/RDFLib/rdflib-jsonld
* https://github.com/digitalbazaar/pyld

JSON-LD as a target makes sense because we're describing nodes (with
attributes) and edges in a package graph.

On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 7:06 AM, Wes Turner <wes.turner at gmail.com> wrote:

> +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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