[Distutils] comparison of configuration languages

[Ethan Furman]

On 05/10/2016 08:41 AM, Alex Grönholm wrote:
> 10.05.2016, 18:26, Ethan Furman kirjoitti:

>> Please no.  I'd rather do xml than yaml.
>
> Why do you hate it so much? I strongly prefer YAML to anything else I've
> seen here.

It's too complicated and error-prone.  If we want buy-in from casual 
packagers then our configuration language needs to be simple to 
understand and simple to get right.  (The amount of leading whitespace 
on a single line changes your data type?  Really??  0644 and 0x644 both 
map to 420? and 644 maps to 644?)

https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/troubleshooting/yaml_idiosyncrasies.html

https://ciaranm.wordpress.com/2009/03/01/yaml-sucks-gems-sucks-syck-sucks/

While YAML is more easily readable than XML, with XML you already know 
you're in hell so you tread more carefully.  ;)

If we want to take the good ideas of YAML and make our own thing I'm 
okay with that -- but not YAML itself.

--
~Ethan~