Before we implement SDL package format for DUB

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On Monday, 25 August 2014 at 18:28:39 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote:
> 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.

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