On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 12:38 AM, Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm probably the only one but I'm not a fan of JSON with all the extra " > > marks compared to the venerable, lovely, flatter and much easier to edit > > Key: value format. > > I don't really care that much about human readability of the raw > metadata files, I care a lot more about ease of interoperability for > automated tools, and ease of display for generic tools that may not > understand the semantics. I also care about the standard format being > amenable to the publication of metadata through TUF's JSON based > infrastructure. > When I see that file I've always thought "why aren't we writing these by hand instead of through setup.py and then validating that they are correct with a tool?" Bento's file sortof follows this logic. I can accept JSON.
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