Before we implement SDL package format for DUB

[Kagamin via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 26 August 2014 at 13:28:28 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
> 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.

If we want a popular markup language at some expense to save 
people from learning new language, it should be XML - it's more 
popular, than anything else.