Carl Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 1, 12:11 pm, Jon Ribbens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 2008-05-01, Ivan Illarionov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > IMO .ini-like config files are from the stone age. The modern approach is > > > to use YAML (http://www.yaml.org). > > > > You mean YAML isn't a joke!? It's so ludicrously overcomplicated, > > and so comprehensively and completely fails to achieve its stated > > main goal of being "readable by humans", that I had assumed it > > was an April Fool along the lines of Intercal or brainf***. > > > YAML, ISTM, took a simple concept that worked for small, > straightforward data, and tried to make into a format that could > anything anywhere, with disastrous results. It's not unlike Perl in > this regard. It's quite ridiculous. > > > My recommendation to the OP would be: > > If you intend to write a GUI that completely sets all the options, use > XML. You can bet there are some users who would prefer text editing > options files, and XML, while not the most readable format available, > at least gives users the option. > But XML has human unfriendly syntax, is awkward to type, is difficult to read, what's good about it? If there's a GUI between you and the XML then OK, but that wasn't where we were was it?
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