On Saturday, 30 August 2014 at 09:37:55 UTC, Marc Schütz wrote:
On Friday, 29 August 2014 at 20:54:49 UTC, Idan Arye wrote:
I would now like to invoke the Zero One Infinity
Rule(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_one_infinity_rule).
Supporting one format makes sense - DUB can simply use the set
of functions and data structures provided by Phobos or by
external libraries for using this format.
Supporting two formats will require two sets of functions and
data structures, and to decide a point where the two
code-paths will be joined to a single representation of the
build configuration. According to the ZOI rule, you might as
well take the extra step and support infinity formats!
This might make sense from a technical point of view, but do we
want it? In the extreme case, we'd end up with a different
format for each package, though more likely will be a
distribution where most packages focus on one or two formats,
but with a looooong tail...
Well, since we are already talking about implementing a second
format in addition to JSON, I figured we don't give a rat's ass
about diversion in packages...
