+1 XML I understand the apprehension some people have regarding XML, but the built-in features make it the obvious winner IMHO. As Fabien mentioned, PHP offers far too few restraints, which will surely be misused and abused causing much confusion. I could see novice users using PHP configuration hacks to avoid having to learn dependency injection, which is the shining star of Symfony2. I love having the alternative configuration options, but using XML promotes good documentation, which is key to successful end-user configuration.
Greg On Sep 24, 2010, at 12:07 PM, Fabien Potencier wrote: > Hi all, > > Symfony2 supports many different formats for its configuration files. By > default, we support XML, YAML, INI, PHP, and Annotations. That's great as it > demonstrates the flexibility of the framework, but we need to choose one > "default" format (the recommend one in the documentation and the one that > bundles should use). > > Right now, the recommended one is XML (but we show YAML by default in the > documentation because it is more concise). But I'm wondering if we should > switch to PHP instead. > > Here is my reasoning: > > * YAML: Even if this is the more readable and simple format, it cannot be > used for the default because it needs a YAML parser and also because it is > really difficult to debug problems in a YAML file (missing :, tabs, wrong > indentation, ...). > > * INI and Annotations: They cannot be used for the default as they are not > suitable for all configurations. > > * XML: Great because you have validation, auto-completion, and documentation > (with XSD) but many people don't like to use XML (verbose, feels like Java, > ...). > > * PHP: Great as there is nothing new to learn. The only drawback I see is > that PHP being dynamic by nature, people can do weird thing in the > configuration files (for instance, changing a configuration setting based on > the current time; and that won't work because the configuration is cached in > a static form). > > What do you think? > > Fabien > > -- > Fabien Potencier > Sensio CEO - symfony lead developer > sensiolabs.com | symfony-project.org | fabien.potencier.org > Tél: +33 1 40 99 80 80 > > -- > If you want to report a vulnerability issue on symfony, please send it to > security at symfony-project.com > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "symfony developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-devs?hl=en -- If you want to report a vulnerability issue on symfony, please send it to security at symfony-project.com You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "symfony developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-devs?hl=en
