On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 5:46 PM, xoviat <xov...@gmail.com> wrote: > I personally do not understand the aversion to YAML. I mean yes, the > specification is more complicated, but it's also more popular and the YAML > files will not be complex enough for a C library to help that much. And > since it's more popular, people might even prefer specifying package > metadata in a pyproject.yaml. pip could even cache a wheel of the pyyaml > package between builds that could be imported at build time with a > zipimporter rather than vendoring the package. And as a plus it's not named > after an alleged sexist. > > Honestly this is not an issue that interests me very much but this rant is > because I was surprised that toml was chosen when I first found out about > it.
If you want to know why it was chosen then there's lots of discussion in the list archives. I don't think this is a great place to relitigate it. -n -- Nathaniel J. Smith -- https://vorpus.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
