[Distutils] comparison of configuration languages

[Alex Grönholm]

10.05.2016, 18:00, Antoine Pitrou kirjoitti:
> On Tue, 10 May 2016 10:55:38 -0400
> Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
>> I think TOML is more usable than ConfigParser and in particular I think that
>> the adhoc post processing step makes ConfigParser inherently less usable
>> because it forces a special syntax that is specific to this one file. It also
>> means that there's no "right" answer for when you have two different
>> implementations that interpret the same file differently.
> That's true. OTOH, the question is how much better it is for users
> that it's worthwhile bothering them with a syntax change that will
> require (at one point or another) migrating existing files. TOML doesn't
> seem that compelling to me in that regard (quite less than YAML, and I'm
> not a YAML fan).
>
> (as an aside, if there's the question of forking an existing parser
> implementation for better vendorability, forking a YAML parser may be
> more useful to third-party folks than forking a TOML parser :-))
Amen to that, and that's exactly what I'd like to do.
What should the parser be capable of to be accepted for this task? What 
are the requirements?
> Regards
>
> Antoine.
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