I am +1 to TOML; it's INI (a human editable format) with data-types (I think it is even valid INI). I find the format pleasant to work with both in the available libraries and in the editor.
-----Original Message----- From: Distutils-SIG [mailto:distutils-sig-bounces+tritium-list=sdamon....@python.org] On Behalf Of Alex Grönholm Sent: Saturday, May 7, 2016 4:29 AM To: distutils-sig@python.org Subject: Re: [Distutils] comparison of configuration languages +1. I don't think the pathological cases of YAML syntax are of any concern in this context. Plus it has excellent tooling support, unlike TOML. 07.05.2016, 09:25, Fred Drake kirjoitti: > On May 6, 2016, at 10:59 PM, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote: >> Here's that one-stop writeup/comparison of all the major configuration >> languages that I mentioned: >> >> https://gist.github.com/njsmith/78f68204c5d969f8c8bc645ef77d4a8f > Thank you for this! A very nice summary. > > On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 11:14 PM, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: >> While I personally prefer YAML to any of the options on a purely syntax based >> level, when you weigh in all the other considerations for this I think that it >> makes sense to go with TOML for it. > I expect either YAML or TOML would be acceptable, based on this. I'll > admit that I'd not heard of TOML before, but it warrants consideration > (possibly for some of my projects as well). > > I've spent a fair bit of time using YAML with Ansible lately, as well > as some time looking at RAML, and don't find myself worried about the > syntax. Every oddness I've run across has been handled with an error > when the content couldn't be parsed correctly, rather than unexpected > behavior resulting from misunderstanding how it would be parsed. It's > entirely possible I just haven't run across the particular problems > Donald has run across, though. > > (The embedded Jinja2 in Ansible playbooks is another matter; let's not > make that mistake.) > > > -Fred > _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
