[Distutils] toml

[holger krekel]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 16:45 -0400, Daniel Holth wrote:
> I liked it because I agree with the TOML author that the YAML spec
> gives rage; YAML seems to be defined as a bunch of things that the end
> user is supposed to think are intuitive, but try understanding and
> correctly parsing the full set of what is allowed... TOML on the other
> hand is short.

Don't know but TOML could work well as a user facing config syntax.
Seems to be reasonably well defined and more expressive than plain ini
files.  Would be curious if it could be used for tox for example.

cheers,
holger

> On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 4:23 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 27 October 2014 19:23, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
> >> Ugh, I hate TOML. I’m -1 on any of the standards using it, but I also
> >> think the standards should be around data exchange and should just use
> >> JSON and leave front end stuff like that up to the implementations.
> >
> > I had a quick glance at TOML, and I can't say I was particularly
> > enamoured by it. I don't see that it has any particularly huge
> > benefits over "plain" ini files (if your needs are simple) or YAML
> > (ignoring the over-complicated stuff that nobody actually needs).
> >
> > +1 on JSON for "internal" format, and tools deciding for themselves on
> > the best user-facing format.
> >
> > I'm also not sure I see the value of mapping directly to a dict.
> > Surely internal formats should be isolated from the user interface,
> > not exposed directly?
> > Paul
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