replying to myself. "being text based just handy" is misleading, it is much more than handy - i want us to be able to use cvc rdiff / diff (and later git machinery when we move to it) to observe .sauce file operations.
António. On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 3:02 PM, António Meireles < [email protected]> wrote: > Hey Og, > > <quote>that .sauce file, albeit hand editable, would mainly be manipulated > via a > command-line tool</quote> > > <quote> > [1] i 've picked xml here, because, well, because the format looked a bit > easier, visually on the eyes, than going to json, which would be another > valid choice. whatever we pick as the storage format, after processing i > suppose things will be pure json structures anyway, as that gives us a > cheap/simple and well established way to map things to python objects. > </quote> > > exact, on file-system format, just an artifact, as data will be > manipulated mostly via the cli (being text based just handy) > Nothing set in stone, i expect us in the end to pick the format that most > closely matches our final requirements in the simplest, smoothest way. > > António Meireles > -- > Lead Developer, The Foresight Linux Project > http://www.foresightlinux.org > > > On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Og Maciel <[email protected]> wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On Thu, 7 Feb 2013 14:32:47 +0000 >> António Meireles <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > [1] i 've picked xml here, because, well, because the format looked a >> > bit easier, visually on the eyes, than going to json, which would be >> > another valid choice. whatever we pick as the storage format, after >> > processing i suppose things will be pure json structures anyway, as >> > that gives us a cheap/simple and well established way to map things >> > to python objects. >> >> Not to start a discussion on the implementation (unless of course, this >> is the right time, I'd vote for something more YAML-like. It is imho >> much clear and easy to follow, edit, etc. >> >> This looks exciting! >> - -- >> Og B. Maciel - GPG/PGP: D5CFC202 >> http://ogmaciel.tumblr.com >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) >> >> iEYEARECAAYFAlETvmoACgkQUDEm1NXPwgKacACgj8R611ZthZGpgdE3FH9AP1PB >> l0wAoIp4GxlRDAbhF0i6RI1WhAKjmfVu >> =hZeB >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> _______________________________________________ >> Foresight-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.foresightlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/foresight-devel >> >> > _______________________________________________ Foresight-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.foresightlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/foresight-devel
