DConf Hackathon Ideas

[Stefan Koch via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 1 May 2017 at 17:04:42 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> On 1 May 2017 at 16:51, Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d 
> <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>> On Monday, 1 May 2017 at 14:38:11 UTC, Joseph Rushton Wakeling 
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thursday, 27 April 2017 at 16:33:02 UTC, singingbush wrote:
>>>>
>>>> SDL should be dropped.
>>>
>>>
>>> Deprecated, sure.  But dropping it seems a bad idea given 
>>> that various projects do still use it for their DUB package 
>>> config.
>>>
>>>> NOBODY USES IT!
>>>
>>>
>>> Probably not true.  Perhaps a hackathon project could be to 
>>> create a little app to find which projects on GitHub (or at 
>>> least code.dlang.org) still use a `dub.sdl`, and auto-submit 
>>> a PR to fix that? :-)
>>
>>
>> I love SDL and much prefer it over JSON for DUB configs. Use 
>> it for all of my D projects. It looks cleaner and supports 
>> comments. I really would hate to see support dropped.
>
> We should make XML the default config format for DUB.
>
>
> <?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
> <dub
>   xmlns="http://code.dlang.org/"
>   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
>   <project
>     name="gdcproject"
>     description="The vibe.d server application running 
> gdcproject.org."
>     copyright="Copyright © 2014, Iain Buclaw">
>     <authors>
>       <author name="Iain Buclaw">
>     </authors>
>     <dependencies>
>       <dependency name="vibe-d" version="0.7.22">
>       <dependency name="mustache-d" version="0.1.0">
>     </dependencies>
>     <versions>
>       <version name="VibeDefaultMain">
>     </versions>
>   </project>
> </dub>
>
>
> /Runaway!

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