Preferred program config file format and parsing library?

John Colvin via Digitalmars-d-learn digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Sun Aug 3 04:38:46 PDT 2014


On Sunday, 3 August 2014 at 10:54:10 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote:
> 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?

http://code.dlang.org/packages/dyaml


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