dub: JSON, SDL, YAML, TOML, what color should we paint it ?

[Mathias LANG]

On Wednesday, 1 March 2023 at 14:21:12 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:
>
> It hasn't sailed for dub. Neither json nor sdl require 
> significant white space.


I meant that the argument, in general, has been debunked. Also, 
SDL has significant whitespace in how it treats newlines.

> We will never be rid of SDL. Remember that dub has to not only 
> parse the current config, but all tagged configs. Updating all 
> old projects, and all previous tags of old projects, is not 
> going to happen.

That's a problem we can work around, but having code to convert 
from SDL to YAML/JSON. We're already doing this (accidentaly) 
when downloading a package.