On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 4:42 PM, Tarek Ziadé <ta...@ziade.org> wrote: > On 6/22/12 7:05 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > I don't understand what's the problem is with ini-style files, as they are > suitable for multi-line variables etc. (see zc.buildout) > > yaml vs ini vs xxx seems to be an implementation detail, and my take on this > is that we have ConfigParser in the stdlib
You can't do more than one layer of nested data structures cleanly with an ini-style solution, and some aspects of packaging are just crying out for metadata that nests more deeply than that. The setup.cfg format for specifying installation layouts doesn't even come *close* to being intuitively readable - using a format with better nesting support has some hope of fixing that, since filesystem layouts are naturally hierarchical. A JSON based format would also be acceptable to me from a functional point of view, although in that case, asking people to edit it directly would be cruel - you would want to transform it to YAML in order to actually read it or write it. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
