On 05/10/2016 08:41 AM, Alex Grönholm wrote:
10.05.2016, 18:26, Ethan Furman kirjoitti:
Please no. I'd rather do xml than yaml.
Why do you hate it so much? I strongly prefer YAML to anything else I've
seen here.
It's too complicated and error-prone. If we want buy-in from casual
packagers then our configuration language needs to be simple to
understand and simple to get right. (The amount of leading whitespace
on a single line changes your data type? Really?? 0644 and 0x644 both
map to 420? and 644 maps to 644?)
https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/troubleshooting/yaml_idiosyncrasies.html
https://ciaranm.wordpress.com/2009/03/01/yaml-sucks-gems-sucks-syck-sucks/
While YAML is more easily readable than XML, with XML you already know
you're in hell so you tread more carefully. ;)
If we want to take the good ideas of YAML and make our own thing I'm
okay with that -- but not YAML itself.
--
~Ethan~
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