[Distutils] comparison of configuration languages

[Ethan Furman]

On 05/10/2016 09:38 AM, Alex Grönholm wrote:
> 10.05.2016, 19:35, Ethan Furman kirjoitti:

>> 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?

I might.  A couple in-house projects have scripts that only root should run.

> No?

Don't assume for me, and don't assume for the hundreds (thousands?  tens 
of thousands?) of others who will be using this.

> Then why is this a problem for you in this case?

See above.

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~Ethan~