On 4/6/06, Blair Zajac <blair@orcaware.com> wrote:
> Why not look at YAML?
>
> "YAML(tm) (rhymes with "camel") is a straightforward machine parsable data
> serialization format designed for human readability and interaction with
> scripting languages such as Perl and Python. YAML is optimized for data
> serialization, configuration settings, log files, Internet messaging and
> filtering. YAML(tm) is a balance of the following design goals.
>
> # YAML documents are very readable by humans.
> # YAML interacts well with scripting languages.
> # YAML uses host languages' native data structures.
> # YAML has a consistent information model.
> # YAML enables stream-based processing.
> # YAML is expressive and extensible.
> # YAML is easy to implement.
>
> It's already got implementations in most languages (Python, Ruby, Java, Perl)
> and I think it's got less overhead then XML.
>
> It would be interesting to see speed tests.
I think YAML is very cool, but I am totally -1 to adding a dependency
on a YAML parsing library to Subversion. We already need XML for
webdav anyway, so if we're going to use a 'standardized' format, we
might as well just use that.
-garrett
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Received on Fri Apr 7 02:18:14 2006