[Catalyst] YAML vs. *

[A. Pagaltzis]

* Matt S Trout <dbix-class at trout.me.uk> [2006-06-09 17:35]:
> A few (IMO) better options -
> 
> Config::General -
> JSON -
> INI-style -

INI is just too limited for use as the default format.

JSON has the problem that non-programmers don’t know about lists
and hashes and all that, so to them the necessary placement of
parens and braces appears magical.

YAML has the same problem, only much worse, because the syntax
relies on whitespace, dashes and colons. Their placement seems
even more confounding even if it is conceptually equivalent to
JSON.

Apache-style is basically like INI, except that it has provisions
for nested sections. (Directives don’t look exactly like INI, but
the differences are only superficial.) The taggish way of
denoting sections is a bit verbose, but is actually easier for
non-programmers to figure out than something brace-based, and
also makes large documents easier to visually parse than dainty
punctuation. The only downer is that Config::General can’t
serialise a config to something quite as pretty-looking as a
human can write it, but that’s entirely livable.

Regards,
-- 
Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>