On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 3:23 PM Markus KARG <mar...@headcrashing.eu> wrote: > > Okay, seems you got me wrong. The idea is not to force YOU to write JSON, but > to allows OTHERS to do that. There are people that like JSON and YAML over > XML, so we if would have a separating layer between the information needed by > Maven itself, and the data format providing that information, we would have > the freedom for people to add ANY config format they like. I cannot see any > good reason against THAT. Stay with XML as long as YOU want, but let OTHERS > use OTHER formats.
But I still have to **read** and my tools have to **process** the JSON or other formats that are made available. That makes my job harder, even if the new format is demonstrably superior to the old format because I have to handle both. There's value in standardization. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elh...@ibiblio.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org
