[Catalyst] YAML vs. *

[Matt S Trout]

Nilson Santos Figueiredo Junior wrote:
> On 6/9/06, Thomas Nagel <me at thomasnagel.com> wrote:
>> Maybe a better error reporting may improve the condition but YAML is not
>> that easy for someone who is used to edit Apache- and ini-style
>> configuration on a daily basis ...
> 
> It's not supposed to look familiar to people used to other formats.
> It's just like Perl or Python or Ruby. They're not languages supposed
> to look familiar to traditional languages.
> 
> Anyway, I'm starting to think that the best way to handle this issue
> would be to make ConfigLoader smart enough to load anything you throw
> at it, maybe with some filename/extension conventions. So, if it finds
> "myapp.yml" that's what it loads, the same for "myapp.xml",
> "myapp.ini", and so on.

If you were to read the ConfigLoader docs you'd discover that's what it 
already does.

> I just think I'd like to keep using YAML in a hassle-free way, but
> people who prefer other formats should be able to achieve it too.
> Instead of trying to define a new default format, I think it would be
> saner to follow the usual "Catalyst way of thinkinh" and make it
> easier to use whatever you want.

We already did that. What we're discussing here is whether YAML should remain 
the default.

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