Before we implement SDL package format for DUB

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On Monday, 25 August 2014 at 19:35:09 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> The fact that it's backwards compatible with JSON would be 
> useful for avoiding breaking existing dub packages, and it does 
> sound like it's a better format, but the fact that it's just 
> been created for this makes me leery.

Well, formats are created if existing formats are suboptimal. 
JSON is not a general-purpose format, it was designed to be 
locked on javascript parsers.