Before we implement SDL package format for DUB

[Jonathan Marler via Digitalmars-d]

Please read the entire post when you reply.

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

Yes, in fact I explicitly stated that was my intention.

> 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.

That would have also been my first reaction. However, instead of 
immediately dismissing the idea, it would be more productive to 
state why you think the language is not a good fit, or why you 
think SDL will do just fine. I explained why I think ASON would 
be a better fit than SDL, do you have a counter-argument?

> Honestly it would seriously make me not want to use dub. Just 
> pick one of the existing ones, 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.

It would make you not want to use DUB? Could you please explain 
why? If we used ASON you wouldn't have to change anything, you 
could just continue to use regular JSON since it is already valid 
ASON.

> 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?

No, I wouldn't be willing to break anything. That's why I like 
ASON, it doesn't break anything. Please read the post before you 
reply next time.

> 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.

That's fine, if we used ASON you could just continue to use plain 
old JSON.