[Catalyst] YAML vs. *

[Aran Deltac]

On 6/9/06, Matt S Trout <dbix-class at trout.me.uk> wrote:
> I love YAML as a serialisation format for data transfer, but so far as stuff
> like config files that are designed for human write / machine read, I
> personally think it sucks. Massively.
>
> And for hysterical raisins it's currently our default config file formats, and
> I see users running into trouble getting their myapp.yml to parse right all
> the flipping time. So, I'm wondering if this is just me being a YAML-hating
> heretic or if other people are of the same opinion.

Or both?

> A few (IMO) better options -
>
> Config::General -

This looks like XML.  XML is a language for writing documents, IMO,
nothing more.  A big thumbs down.

> <View TT>
>    INCLUDE_PATH __path_to('root')__
> </View>
>
> JSON -

This gets my vote.  Anyone that use complex perl data structures
should be able to use JSON.  Stupidly simple syntax.  Only drawback is
that non-techies will have a hard time editing it.  But, thats not a
biggy, and if you want that use INI files.

Aran

> {
>    'View::TT': {
>      INCLUDE_PATH: "__path_to('root')__"
>    }
> }
>
> INI-style -

Like I said, use it if you have non-technical people editing the
configs.  Maybe ConfigLoader could be modified to load multiple
configs.  So, we could have a JSON with most of the config, and then
an INI with some of the things that the non-techies need access too.

> [View::TT]
> INCLUDE_PATH=__path_to('root')__
>
> What do you all think, then? (/me dons asbestos suit, waits for the holy war
> to start :)

Of all the people to start a holy war... :)

Aran

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