Preferred program config file format and parsing library?

Gary Willoughby via Digitalmars-d-learn digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Sun Aug 3 03:54:09 PDT 2014


On Sunday, 3 August 2014 at 09:31:20 UTC, Marc Schütz wrote:
> On Saturday, 2 August 2014 at 12:42:00 UTC, Gary Willoughby 
> wrote:
>> What is the preferred format people here use for program 
>> config files? Json, Xml, ini, etc?
>
> JSON is nice for data exchange, but I dislike it for 
> configuration. It doesn't even support comments, or disabling 
> sections of the file. YML is friendlier in this regard.
>
> DUB is considering switching from JSON to SDL:
>
> http://sdl.ikayzo.org/display/SDL/Home
> http://forum.rejectedsoftware.com/groups/rejectedsoftware.dub/thread/2/

Interesting, are there D libs available to parse yaml and sdl?


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