[Python-ideas] support toml for pyproject support

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Tue Oct 9 12:05:36 EDT 2018


On Mon, 8 Oct 2018 09:26:12 -0400
David Mertz <mertz at gnosis.cx> wrote:
> I agree here. I briefly urged against using the less used TOML format, but
> I have no real skin in the game around packaging. I like YAML, but that's
> also not in the standard library, even if more widely used.

Agreed with David.  Also, please note that one argument against YAML is
its complexity, which logically also entails implementation complexity
(and therefore makes it less likely that a YAML implementation would
enter the stdlib).

Regards

Antoine.




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