On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Matt S Trout wrote:
> I love YAML as a serialisation format for data transfer, but so far as stuff > like config files that are designed for human write / machine read, I > personally think it sucks. Massively. > > And for hysterical raisins it's currently our default config file formats, and > I see users running into trouble getting their myapp.yml to parse right all > the flipping time. So, I'm wondering if this is just me being a YAML-hating > heretic or if other people are of the same opinion. > > A few (IMO) better options - > > Config::General - > JSON - > INI-style - I've avoided actually using YAML so far, and finding out that its whitespace sensitive just makes me go "yuck" even more. (The module just had too many problems for me to bother looking at it before) .. I chose XML for mine, because all there is to set up is the DSN, so it's a 3-linie file. JSON is just as bad as YAML for configurations IMO. That leaves me with either Config::General, which seems ok, INI, which probably needs contortions to define some structures, and XML, which despite themselves, many people know. I feel a Catalyst::Plugin::Config::Admin or some such coming on.. I agree with whomever said that *real* end users should get a nice webby frontend with admin login. Jess _______________________________________________ List: [email protected] Listinfo: http://lists.rawmode.org/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
