Re: [Distutils] .ini vs JSON vs YAML meta data format (Was: Simplify 426: Deprecate Author-email and Maintainer-email)

2013-04-27 Thread Vinay Sajip
>This one is huge and requires example to be run to see the actual error. Is >that a minimal example? I don't even have an idea fails there. Obviously small files might work, but that's no help. I didn't have the time to spend to make the example smaller. It is not *that* large, but it is

Re: [Distutils] .ini vs JSON vs YAML meta data format (Was: Simplify 426: Deprecate Author-email and Maintainer-email)

2013-04-27 Thread anatoly techtonik
On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Vinay Sajip wrote: > anatoly techtonik gmail.com> writes: > > Why reinvent own format when there is already YAML with indented > sections? > > Yes, I have to see examples to write in this format, but it is readable > and > > familiar across a broad range of produ

Re: [Distutils] .ini vs JSON vs YAML meta data format (Was: Simplify 426: Deprecate Author-email and Maintainer-email)

2013-04-27 Thread Donald Stufft
On Apr 27, 2013, at 5:24 AM, Vinay Sajip wrote: > anatoly techtonik gmail.com> writes: >> Why reinvent own format when there is already YAML with indented sections? >> Yes, I have to see examples to write in this format, but it is readable and >> familiar across a broad range of products. It is

Re: [Distutils] .ini vs JSON vs YAML meta data format (Was: Simplify 426: Deprecate Author-email and Maintainer-email)

2013-04-27 Thread Vinay Sajip
anatoly techtonik gmail.com> writes: > Why reinvent own format when there is already YAML with indented sections? > Yes, I have to see examples to write in this format, but it is readable and > familiar across a broad range of products. It is better than JSON at least, > because it doesn't require

[Distutils] .ini vs JSON vs YAML meta data format (Was: Simplify 426: Deprecate Author-email and Maintainer-email)

2013-04-26 Thread anatoly techtonik
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Daniel Holth wrote: > I would prefer to see PEP 390 withdrawn and I think this has been > suggested before. The metadata is already sourced from different files > depending on your build system. > > The .ini format and our parsers for it are really awful. I always