I hate new DUB config format
rsw0x via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Nov 27 10:31:17 PST 2015
On Friday, 27 November 2015 at 18:27:57 UTC, Chris wrote:
> On Friday, 27 November 2015 at 18:11:34 UTC, Ola Fosheim
> Grøstad wrote:
>> On Friday, 27 November 2015 at 17:51:40 UTC, Chris wrote:
>>> DUB works out of the box. dub init myproject.
>>
>> Wasn't smack-talking DUB. Just pointing out that any type of
>> modification of a config file is a turnoff for a newbie, no
>> matter what format it is in.
>>
>> (and for me and many others JSON would be a massive turn-off)
>
> But JSON is widely used and chances are that people are already
> familiar with it. If not, it's easy to learn, there are loads
> of resources. 3rd party tools can easily parse it. And hey,
> it's not that bad. XML is a lot worse as regards human
> readability. However, I will for the life of me never
> understand why comments were not included.
json is not a configuration file format
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