I hate new DUB config format

David DeWitt via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Nov 25 20:42:11 PST 2015


On Thursday, 26 November 2015 at 04:29:20 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

>> The energy poured into SDL would be more profitably directed 
>> towards improving Phobos' json support.
>
> The energy has already been spent. It's already supported. 
> Projects are already using it. This isn't something new.
>
> Regarding other comments in this thread, *JSON support is not 
> going away.* If you prefer to use JSON, use it. There's no 
> problem here.
>
> As for searchability, you'll find discussions in the vibe.d 
> forums where people refer to it as SDLang now rather than SDL 
> to avoid confusion with the game library. Type that into Google 
> and you're golden. It's no different than encouraging people to 
> search for DLang instead of D, so it's not a big deal.
>
> There are plenty of us who prefer to use SDLang over JSON for 
> our config files. We do not want to see support for it taken 
> away when there's no need for it. It's a much cleaner format, 
> IMO, popular or not. Anyone who finds SDLang somehow abhorrent 
> can just use JSON and move on.

Is there any document explaining how to default to JSON so it 
isn't necessary to specify each time? Also SDL isn't the default 
so if they both stay shouldn't the discussion be which is the 
default or if the user chooses their preference at sometime after 
install (maybe first project)?



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