Before we implement SDL package format for DUB

[Idan Arye via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 26 August 2014 at 20:18:10 UTC, Marc Schütz wrote:
> On Tuesday, 26 August 2014 at 18:35:55 UTC, Jeremy Powers via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> I agree. Those would be the points with most impacts. 
>>> However, the
>>>> outcome would be quite far away from standard JSON, so we 
>>>> would really be
>>>> talking about something like ASON or SDL already.
>>>>
>>>
>>> There are some beginnings like this one:
>>>
>>> http://json5.org/
>>>
>>
>> Here's another, that supports tables:
>> https://github.com/krisnye/ion
>>
>> Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any decently popular 
>> winner of the
>> 'extended JSON' language, apparently most are fine with just 
>> adding
>> comments.  YAML might be a choice, but I find it diverges a 
>> bit too far
>> (and I'm not a fan of significant whitespace).
>
> Well, ion already has that in its name: "indented object 
> notation" :-(
>
> Basic YAML is not so bad (apart from significant whitespace, 
> which I also dislike), but the full specification is 
> surprisingly complicated (properties, tags, lots of different 
> ways to format text...). Even though it wouldn't be utilized in 
> most cases, these features would still need to be supported.
>
> SDL is preferable IMO.

Since YAML is common enough to have implementations for most 
popular programming languages, supporting it's complicated 
features should not be a problem.