Before we implement SDL package format for DUB

[Gary Willoughby via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 25 August 2014 at 16:40:10 UTC, Jonathan Marler wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I've been working on SDL support for DUB and wanted to get some 
> people's opinions on whether we should really use SDL.  I've 
> posted my thoughts here: 
> http://forum.rejectedsoftware.com/groups/rejectedsoftware.dub/thread/2263/

I kind of get the feeling you're trying to push dub to use ASON.

My first reaction is, please don't invent yet another markup 
language for developers to learn. Especially as this new language 
is only relevant to dub. Honestly it would seriously make me not 
want to use dub. Just pick one of the existing ones, XML, Yaml, 
Json, SDL (i've never heard of this one.) and stick with it. All 
other package managers seem to do just fine. Don't fix what isn't 
broken.

Relevant: http://xkcd.com/927/

Seriously though are you also willing to break all existing 
dub.json files? That's 317 (http://code.dlang.org/ as of today) 
packages this change is going to mess with. Are you really going 
to do that? Just as things are starting to take off?

I'm in favour of just sticking to plain, normal old Json. 
Everyone knows it, everyone understands it and everything else 
does just fine using it.