I'm still pulling for RFC 822 format :) On Thu, Feb 18, 2016, 14:33 Nathaniel Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 9:06 AM, Ethan Furman <[email protected]> wrote: > > Greetings! > > > > I saw PEP-0516 go through check-ins, and had a question about the > pypa.json > > portion of the proposal -- namely, why are we using a .json file? > > > > I presume this is a file that will be created by hand, and while json is > not > > as ugly as xml, it's certainly not pretty. > > > > Can we not use an .ini file, or a white-space significant format? The > > latter should be familiar, if not comfortable, to any Python programmer. > > These are still draft proposals, and the actual file format is the > least interesting question to discuss. Think of the JSON thing as > being a placeholder for now :-). > > There is no obvious solution, because .ini files are extremely > underspecified, nothing else is in the stdlib, yaml contains its own > share of gibbering horrors, toml is not widely used and is associated > with an extremely divisive figure, etc. etc. Don't worry, though: > there will be bikeshedding. Ideally *after* the more substantive > issues are settled :-) > > -n > > -- > Nathaniel J. Smith -- https://vorpus.org > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig >
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