Before we implement SDL package format for DUB

[Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 25 August 2014 at 18:31:42 UTC, Marc Schütz wrote:
> If only it supported comments...

Yeah, that's what I hate about JSON. It's pretty good overall, 
but that's a huge deficiency IMHO - and I'd very much like to be 
able to put comments in my dub package files. So, in that 
respect, ASON seems like a definite improvement. However, I am a 
bit wary of creating a new file format. Maybe if it's good enough 
and marketed well enough, it could challenge JSON, but at the 
moment, it would just be for dub, which isn't so great.

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. And even if we were to push it 
beyond dub and try and get it accepted more widely, it's new 
enough that I question that it won't need to be adjusted after 
further use, since it's rare that anything complicated is done 
right the first time.

So, I'm not necessarily against the idea of using ASON, but I'm 
not sure that it's a good idea either.

- Jonathan M Davis