[chef-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Dialect support and loading enhancements

[Noah Kantrowitz < >]

On Oct 2, 2013, at 9:28 PM, Mike 
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 wrote:

> One minor note on yaml:
> 
> We use this for config files with our customer-facing code, and the yaml 
> syntax spacing issues border on nightmarish.
> 
> Given a choice to go back and change it, I don't know if we'd make a 
> different choice, but a fair amount of customer support time is spent on 
> debugging incorrect config file syntax.
> 
> I still don't know if I understand the reasoning behind the desire for 
> _more_ config file syntaxes? Let's toss in TOML while we're at it as well?

Yaml is already available with no additional libraries and gets much further 
toward a human-friendly syntax, so I see it as a bit of a compromise. It 
allows knife diff and similar to work since an object can be reserialized but 
is a bit nicer than JSON. I think you were being sarcastic but I am actually 
all in favor of a TOML syntax plugin :-)

--Noah

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