On Monday, 18 November 2019 at 23:08:13 UTC, Laurent Tréguier
wrote:
I don't understand why this would apply to JSON specifically.
Whatever the language is, the config files will be
hand-written; spelling errors are pretty universal, and
anything we write is prone to mistakes to some extent
dud already tells you if you mistyped a key.
Adding new file formats is "trivial" with dud current code base.
This
https://github.com/symmetryinvestments/dud/blob/master/pkgdescription/source/dud/pkgdescription/package.d is the data structure used to mirror the file content.
This
https://github.com/symmetryinvestments/dud/blob/master/pkgdescription/source/dud/pkgdescription/json.d is the json reader.
Currently, I have no plans to add any other file format.
But PR's are always welcome.
The decision on json and sdl has been made a long time ago, for
better
or for worse.
Please don't turn this thread into bike-shedding.
Additionally, dub/dud is already on the way to add cli functions
to manipulate
the config file.
A look at adding dependencies with "dub add" already shows that.
