[Distutils] comparison of configuration languages

[Chris Barker]

Really?

writing Yet Another Markup Language (YAML :-) ) CAN'T be the simplest, best
option.

> After further consideration, and pytoml's author's comment about the spec
changing without a version increase, I think we might be better off rolling
our own.

>
> I like the general simplicity, and would stick with that, but I'd be a lot
> more comfortable if we had our spec that was more consistent.
>

If we're going to do that, then why not the 'simple part of yaml'.

or Python literals. (if I recall, the main reason not to do that was that
no other language has a lib to read it -- rolling out own does not solve
that!)

Or just go with JSON -- I'm annoyed by it at times, but it's not SO bad.

(and you can kinda-sorta simulate comments with useless keys :-)

{ "comment": "this is just something i wanted to say here",
...
}

or we could do "JSON with comments" -- not hard to write a tiny
pre-processor before passing it off to the json lib.

Anyway -- let's avoid the temptation to role your own everything, and use
something standard!

-CHB

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