On 12:09 am, gl...@twistedmatrix.com wrote: >On Apr 7, 2011, at 7:54 PM, Stephen Thorne wrote: >>On 2011-04-07, Stefano Debenedetti wrote: >>>On Apr 7, 2011, at 1:08 AM, Tim Allen wrote: >>>>If you need a non-Turing-complete config language and rule out .ini >>>>and >>>>XML, I'm not sure what's left. JSON, perhaps. >>> >>>I bet a lot of people have a deja-vu feeling about a config file >>>syntax debate so I'll propose an alternative approach: RDF. >> >>I am +1 on this idea. I like rdf. My question is now: is there an rdf >>parser lib that is available on python2.4+ which can either be gently >>embedded within twisted, or used as a dependency? >> >>We don't really need SparQL or anything complicated, just the ability >>to resolve some simple triples. >> >>I do not like angle brackets, but I have always had a fond affection >>for >>n3. > >You're welcome to try and do this; I'm not particularly interested in >blocking it or holding it up, but I don't think that changing the input >format actually solves any real problems. I guess I will hold it up if >you can't convince me that I'm wrong about that, and demonstrate an >actual problem that it solves :-). You still have to define all the >same classes in order to get a plugin, unless we change some of that >too - which has nothing to do with the metadata format at all.
I agree. I don't see how this addresses any of the problems with the current system which have been raised so far. Jean-Paul _______________________________________________ Twisted-Python mailing list Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python