[Distutils] comparison of configuration languages

Robert Collins robertc at robertcollins.net
Sun May 15 23:55:53 EDT 2016


On 15 May 2016 at 08:21, Ionel Cristian Mărieș <contact at ionelmc.ro> wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 9:22 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
>>
>> No need to think; the decision is made and it's TOML. I know Chris doesn't
>> mean to stir up trouble, but at this point if someone wants to propose
>> something other than TOML they are going to have to write their own PEP.
>
>
> Not asking for any change but has anyone looked at libconfig? It looks quite
> interesting: simple grammar and nesting support. What do you think of it?

I hadn't, but its certainly irrelevant here, as vendoring it suitably
for pip would be excruciating due to the C dependency.

-Rob


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