On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 1:00 PM, Jeremy Stanley <fu...@yuggoth.org> wrote: > (The > community around it is sensitive to gender diversity issues and > wants to avoid acquiring more of a "brogrammer" image, so some of us > worry that any conspicuous TOML files checked into revision control > repositories could be seen as a tacit endorsement of the author's > alleged behavior at GH a few years ago.)
I was one of the folks championing TOML during the original discussions, and this is an issue that also worried me a lot. In case it's a useful data point: I actually contacted several of the main rust/cargo developers, since they were the major users of TOML and are also well known to be sensitive to these issues, to ask if they've had any issues with this, and they said that they haven't heard any complaints. Obviously there's a difference between "no-one complained" and "no-one was bothered", and I suspect the community's existing reputation may affect how this is interpreted as well, but... maybe useful as a data point. Between this and the way the TOML spec appears to have been abandoned at v0.4 (with the admonition "you should assume that is is unstable and act accordingly") I've wondered if we should fork it, rename it "the obvious minimal language", and release our own 1.0. -n -- Nathaniel J. Smith -- https://vorpus.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
