Draft PEP on RSON configuration file format

[Robert Kern]

On 2010-03-05 17:59 PM, Chris Rebert wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Aahz <aahz at pythoncraft.com
> <mailto:aahz at pythoncraft.com>> wrote:
>  > In article <7xwrxv4vv7.fsf at ruckus.brouhaha.com
> <mailto:7xwrxv4vv7.fsf at ruckus.brouhaha.com>>,
>  > Paul Rubin <no.email at nospam.invalid> wrote:
>  >>
>  >>ReST is another abomination that should never have gotten off the
>  >>ground.  It is one of the reasons I react so negatively to your
>  >>config format proposal.  It just sounds like more of the same.
>  >
>  > Really?  What should we use instead of reST?
>
> Markdown, Textile, or possibly Creole; reST has so little use outside of
> Python as to be nearly Python-specific.
> It'd be nice not to have to learn yet another markup language without
> good reason.

I believe ReST predates all of those mentioned.

-- 
Robert Kern

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  an underlying truth."
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