On 6/22/12 9:11 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
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.
I still think this is an implementation detail, and that ini can work here,
as they have proven to work with buildout and look very clean to me.
But I guess that's not important -- looking forward for you changes
proposals on packaging.
I am now wondering why we don't have a yaml module in the stdlib btw :)
Cheers,
Nick.
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