Justin Erenkrantz wrote:
> On 4/6/06, Garrett Rooney <rooneg@electricjellyfish.net> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> I wonder how the ConfigParser / INI format would do? We already use
> that in a bunch of other places and have all the parsing code in
> libsvn_subr.
It woudl do just great, except that we'd probably have to optimize it a
bit (it currently does character-by-character reads from a stream, but a
buffered stream would fix that).
The really nice part is that, unlike the XML parser which must be taught
in advance about new tags when a format changes, the config file parser
doesn't have to know about section and value names. So we could embed
the entries version number in the file itself and interpret it /after/
we've parsed the file.
-- Brane
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Received on Wed Apr 12 12:31:41 2006