On Wednesday, January 2, 2013, Andreas Tille <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 06:26:12AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: >> The advantage of using a single field for each ID is that the information is >> easily extracted by retreiving the debian/upstream file and filtering the line >> containing the field. If it were nested in a YAML mapping, then the only >> robust solution would be to parse YAML. Also, a simpler syntax means less >> syntax errors. > > I think this is a non-argument provided you are using a proper YAML API > as for instance in the Python implementation which is pretty > straightforward. > > I could only imagine problems when considering plain grep or something > like this.
I agree with Charles that this kind of simplicity is desireable, and the contrast to the references makes sense to me now. Michael > > -- GPG key: 1024D/3144BE0F Michael Hanke http://mih.voxindeserto.de Jabber: [email protected]
