are we going to take into account the whole migration effort ( for existing
users) and the possible learning curve?

I think we should review what exactly configurations we have (in each
product) and how it will look in Yaml/Json? ( - and such a conversion would
that lead to better user experience or just mess things up?)


On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 5:37 AM, Thilina Piyasundara <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> IMO its better to move out from XML. But Yaml and Json have its own
> disadvantages as well. In yaml you can mess the hole thing if you miss a
> single space/tab. In json you can't comment out a configuration block. Its
> better to have a UI to configure and save those configs in a yaml or json
> format specially when we have to deal with lots of configuration files.
>
> By the way, windows systems and python programs use a configuration format
> called ini which is an old way of storing configurations using name value
> pares with sections [1].
>
> 1. http://www.fcla.edu/z3950/everglades.html
>
> Thanks and regards,
>
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> On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 11:57 PM, Paul Fremantle <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I agree. I downloaded the MSS and C5 distros and I found the XML configs
>> made them seem a little outdated.
>>
>> Paul
>>
>> On 10 November 2015 at 18:06, Afkham Azeez <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I brought up this idea a few years ago as well and it got shot down, and
>>> I thought of bringing this back again. More and more, we are starting to
>>> notice that the world is moving or has moved from verbose XML based
>>> configuration to more concise YAML based configuration. So IMO, from C5
>>> based products onwards we have to move to YAML based config.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Azeez
>>>
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