> On Jul 21, 2017, at 1:10 PM, Leif Johansson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> We had a (less than spirited) discussion in Praha about the K/V vs JSON.
> 
> The situation is that of the active participants that are also
> implementors one (postfix - Victor) has said that he does not believe
> that postfix will ship with a standard JSON-based implementation but
> that this doesn't preclude third-party plugins.
> 
> The other major implementor who is also an active participant (google)
> has stated that they have a JSON implementation but that they are
> also eager to close this issue. One more implementor (Chris) has stated
> no preference but also said that his (native) JSON parser is somewhat
> smaller than his K/V one.
> 
> Based on this and falling back to the IETF WG process as chair I would
> conclude that there isn't enough consensus to make a change and that
> we are staying with JSON.
> 
> I would prefer to have more opinions (implementors in particular) but
> we are also going to get past this. In particular I would like to hear
> from implementors who (like Victor) have a problem living with either
> choice.

I don’t have an opinion on the two choices but in the past when I’ve needed to 
do JSON work in “C’, I’ve used this library which made it very painless.

https://github.com/DaveGamble/cJSON <https://github.com/DaveGamble/cJSON>

The license is very permissive (MIT) and the author even suggests just 
including two files cJSON.[ch] directly in your project if you wish.

Tom

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