I personally do not understand the aversion to YAML. I mean yes, the specification is more complicated, but it's also more popular and the YAML files will not be complex enough for a C library to help that much. And since it's more popular, people might even prefer specifying package metadata in a pyproject.yaml. pip could even cache a wheel of the pyyaml package between builds that could be imported at build time with a zipimporter rather than vendoring the package. And as a plus it's not named after an alleged sexist.
Honestly this is not an issue that interests me very much but this rant is because I was surprised that toml was chosen when I first found out about it. 2017-08-25 18:16 GMT-05:00 Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com>: > On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 1:00 PM, Jeremy Stanley <fu...@yuggoth.org> wrote: > > (The > > community around it is sensitive to gender diversity issues and > > wants to avoid acquiring more of a "brogrammer" image, so some of us > > worry that any conspicuous TOML files checked into revision control > > repositories could be seen as a tacit endorsement of the author's > > alleged behavior at GH a few years ago.) > > I was one of the folks championing TOML during the original > discussions, and this is an issue that also worried me a lot. In case > it's a useful data point: I actually contacted several of the main > rust/cargo developers, since they were the major users of TOML and are > also well known to be sensitive to these issues, to ask if they've had > any issues with this, and they said that they haven't heard any > complaints. > > Obviously there's a difference between "no-one complained" and "no-one > was bothered", and I suspect the community's existing reputation may > affect how this is interpreted as well, but... maybe useful as a data > point. > > Between this and the way the TOML spec appears to have been abandoned > at v0.4 (with the admonition "you should assume that is is unstable > and act accordingly") I've wondered if we should fork it, rename it > "the obvious minimal language", and release our own 1.0. > > -n > > -- > Nathaniel J. Smith -- https://vorpus.org > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig >
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