[Distutils] comparison of configuration languages

[Alex Grönholm]

10.05.2016, 19:35, Ethan Furman kirjoitti:
> 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?)
Do you actually expect to use these in your project's configuration? No? 
Then why is this a problem for you in this case?
>
> 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~
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