On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Chris Withers<ch...@simplistix.co.uk> wrote: > Barry Warsaw wrote: >> >> On Aug 12, 2009, at 7:09 PM, David Lyon wrote: >> >>> For example, add the ability for setup.py to interact with a new >>> file called, say "setup.xml". >> >> Oh for Guido's sake, can we please not use XML? I'd much prefer a >> human-friendly format ;) > > +10, but I'm +sys.maxint on not using json. We want to use javascript to > configure python packages? Wait, what?! > > It the data doesn't need to be nested, I'd say use ConfigParser format...
+1, even if the information is nested. Note that there are variants of config parser that support nesting and there are techniques for representing nested data in normal config-parser files. Jim -- Jim Fulton _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
