Before we implement SDL package format for DUB

[Sönke Ludwig via Digitalmars-d]

Am 26.08.2014 15:37, schrieb Kagamin:
> 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.

XML may pass the popularity test, but utterly fails at providing a more 
concise and usable experience. As far as I'm concerned, it's about 
finding the most "usable" language among those that are *decently* popular.