Before we implement SDL package format for DUB

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On Thursday, 28 August 2014 at 19:47:13 UTC, Nick Sabalausky 
wrote:
> On 8/28/2014 5:29 AM, Kagamin wrote:
>> and the only way
>> to make them scale is to turn them into syntactical equivalent 
>> of XML
>> with closing tags. And even then more verbose than XML itself. 
>> So what's
>> a difference from XML if good config language still must have 
>> XML syntax?
>>
>
> The differences (off the top of my head, there may be more):
>
> - Nobody has to actually write the closing
> - Nobody had to keep the opening/closing in sync
> - The closing takes up zero bytes
> - Nobody has to actually look at the closing if they want to 
> reduce the visual clutter: Ie, viewing it is an optional thing.

So it has no advantage over using a grammar-based XML editor, 
just less flexible and more clumsy… Sounds like the wrong 
trade-off.

(tags don't take much space when the file is compressed)