Draft PEP on RSON configuration file format
in [Python]
|
Prev: [ANNC] pynguin-0.1 (python-based turtle graphics application)
Next: Detecting new removable drives in Linux
From: Tim Chase on 5 Mar 2010 11:28 Steve Howell wrote: > On Mar 4, 11:46 pm, Paul Rubin <no.em...(a)nospam.invalid> wrote: >> We already have to deal with XML. So using XML for config files doesn't >> require anyone to deal with any lousy formats that they didn't have to >> deal with before. So the basic answer to your question about >> well-established standards is yes: one annoying but standardized format >> is better than multiple annoying unstandardized ones. > > <question type="rhetorical"> > Does this mean we should stick with XML until the end of time? > </question> One word: COBOL :-) -tkc
From: Aahz on 5 Mar 2010 17:45 In article <7xwrxv4vv7.fsf(a)ruckus.brouhaha.com>, Paul Rubin <no.email(a)nospam.invalid> wrote: > >ReST is another abomination that should never have gotten off the >ground. It is one of the reasons I react so negatively to your >config format proposal. It just sounds like more of the same. Really? What should we use instead of reST? -- Aahz (aahz(a)pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "Many customs in this life persist because they ease friction and promote productivity as a result of universal agreement, and whether they are precisely the optimal choices is much less important." --Henry Spencer
From: Gregory Ewing on 5 Mar 2010 20:06 Steven D'Aprano wrote: > I use footnotes all the time[1] in plain text documents and emails. I > don't think there's anything bizarre about it at all. It's not the use of footnotes I'm talking about, it's the cryptic character sequences used to mark them up in ReST. Nobody would come up with them on their own without having read the fine print of an ReST manual. -- Greg
From: Robert Kern on 5 Mar 2010 20:15 On 2010-03-05 17:59 PM, Chris Rebert wrote: > On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Aahz <aahz(a)pythoncraft.com > <mailto:aahz(a)pythoncraft.com>> wrote: > > In article <7xwrxv4vv7.fsf(a)ruckus.brouhaha.com > <mailto:7xwrxv4vv7.fsf(a)ruckus.brouhaha.com>>, > > Paul Rubin <no.email(a)nospam.invalid> wrote: > >> > >>ReST is another abomination that should never have gotten off the > >>ground. It is one of the reasons I react so negatively to your > >>config format proposal. It just sounds like more of the same. > > > > Really? What should we use instead of reST? > > Markdown, Textile, or possibly Creole; reST has so little use outside of > Python as to be nearly Python-specific. > It'd be nice not to have to learn yet another markup language without > good reason. I believe ReST predates all of those mentioned. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco
From: Paul Rubin on 5 Mar 2010 20:10
Robert Kern <robert.kern(a)gmail.com> writes: >> Markdown, Textile, or possibly Creole;... > I believe ReST predates all of those mentioned. Texinfo and POD are certainly older than ReST. I'm not sure about MediaWiki markup, but it's gotten so much traction that Markdown should probably be abandoned in its favor even if Markdown is older. |