On 09/06/06, Matt S Trout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Carl Franks wrote:
I think what would make me happy would be to simply have the
auto-generated yaml config file have a half-dozen or so lines of
comments at the top, containing a brief overview of the syntax and any
vital reminders such
Hi,
I'm getting this feeling this debate is winding down
with the end of the weekend, but just some last two
cents; I would seriously prefer anything that is not
reliant on spaces, tabs or other semi-invisible
characters for syntax purposes. Yes, you can set your
text editor to help smooth over
On 6/9/06, Andrew Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think a major problems is that often configuration file contents are
not designed in anyway; they just evolve as a serialization of the
information that the programmer happens to need to initialize the
application (and often this will not be
Wow, this is a long thread for only 4 hours!
I dislike YAML, but I still prefer it to the other options you suggested.
The main reason I dislike it is everytime I need to add an array to a
cat config file, I need to either find a previous application that had
an array in it's config file, or
Carl Franks wrote:
Wow, this is a long thread for only 4 hours!
I dislike YAML, but I still prefer it to the other options you suggested.
The main reason I dislike it is everytime I need to add an array to a
cat config file, I need to either find a previous application that had
an array
Kieren Diment wrote:
I've read most of this thread, and my main concern is this.
With YAML you can do this:
use YAML;
my $href = {
foo = 'bar'
baz = 'quoxx'
$fnord = [EMAIL PROTECTED]
}
print Dump $href;
and get a YAML dump of what the config datastructure is supposed to look
On 10/06/06, Matt S Trout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kieren Diment wrote: I've read most of this thread, and my main concern is this. With YAML you can do this: use YAML; my $href = "">foo = 'bar'baz = 'quoxx'
$fnord = [EMAIL PROTECTED] } print Dump $href; and get a YAML dump of what the config
Kiki wrote:
Matt S Trout wrote:
I love YAML as a serialisation format for data transfer, but so far as stuff
like config files that are designed for human write / machine read, I
personally think it sucks. Massively.
And for hysterical raisins it's currently our default config file
