-1 YAML +1 XML

Why throw away such a well established standard to use something
experimental? Especially given that there are so many libraries already
based around XML.

Is XML really so hard to write by hand? Sorry for having a negative
opinion, but this just seems like using something different for the sake of
it, without any really compeling reason to do so.

Rupert

On 1/26/07, Alan Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 20:44 -0500, Jesus M. Rodriguez wrote:
> While I like flexibility, I think one or the other (yaml or xml) is
> better.  I've never been
> a fan of XML configuration files, I've found that simple property
> value files were
> sufficient for most things, but YAML seems to give a simple file format
that is
> easy to both read and edit.
>
> +1 YAML
> -1 XML
>

I'm with you all the way. My point was only that if we go with a YAML
solution it won't *prevent* us from accommodating an XML presentation
if/when we ever need to - hopefully we won't ;) We should definitely
start with YAML.

Cheers,
Alan.




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