Re: [Haskell-community] Standard package file format

2016-09-16 Thread Herbert Valerio Riedel
On 2016-09-16 at 08:20:15 +0200, Harendra Kumar wrote: [...] > * YAML (http://yaml.org/spec/1.2/spec.html) is standard and popular. A > significant chunk of developer community is already familiar with it. It is > being used by stack and by hpack as an alternative to cabal format. The >

Re: [Haskell-community] Standard package file format

2016-09-17 Thread Herbert Valerio Riedel
On 2016-09-17 at 06:47:52 +0200, Bardur Arantsson wrote: [...] > I was actually curious about this, and it's interesting to note that > even JSON which was supposed to have *ONE STANDARD* now apparently has > two, an ECMA one and and IETF RFC (seems to be more recent). Btw, that's partly