On 5/24/2014 12:42 PM, Jeremy Powers via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 7:39 AM, Dicebot via Digitalmars-d <
digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
Original thread : http://forum.rejectedsoftware.
com/groups/rejectedsoftware.dub/thread/2/
Summary by Sonke: https://github.com/rejectedsoftware/dub/wiki/Sdl-
based-package-format-draft
Thanks.
Personally, I don't find the arguments for switching convincing. Perhaps
moving to an extended JSON that supports comments and other niceties, but
moving to an entirely new format seems excessive. The nice thing about
JSON is that it is commonly used everywhere, making dub easy to approach
and easy to write tooling for - even after a switch to SDL as the primary
format, I can see many folks and tooling continuing to use JSON. Without
removal of JSON support you are stuck supporting two formats...
tl;dr I think it is a bad idea.
Nobody has said anything about removing JSON support. It's been stated
that JSON support is *staying* as an option. SDL will merely be the
recommended format.
Sayeth Sonke:
"The plan is to keep full support for the JSON based package description
and still use it for machine-to-machine communication, but at the same
time add the new format as the preferred way for developers to write."
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https://github.com/rejectedsoftware/dub/wiki/Sdl-based-package-format-draft
