Chris's Wiki :: blog/tech/XMLNotConfigurationFile Commentshttps://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/XMLNotConfigurationFile?atomcommentsDWiki2010-03-01T18:47:44ZRecent comments in Chris's Wiki :: blog/tech/XMLNotConfigurationFile.From 74.195.225.199 on /blog/tech/XMLNotConfigurationFiletag:CSpace:blog/tech/XMLNotConfigurationFile:9c758e261300462ccb5d41b97f00ae63603af008From 74.195.225.199<div class="wikitext"><p>I find YAML an adequate compromise -- unambiguously machine readable (although sometimes annoying in specifics) but reasonably natural for people to read and write.</p>
<p>In truth, what I think of as "the Windows INI format" (also used by Samba, puppet, and probably plenty of other non-Windows systems) may win for this. YAML can be parsed into more interesting structures, but for most configuration files, that's unimportant, and just having a sectionable set of keyword = value settings is probably plenty.</p>
<p>RFS</p>
</div>2010-03-01T18:47:44ZFrom 195.110.70.55 on /blog/tech/XMLNotConfigurationFiletag:CSpace:blog/tech/XMLNotConfigurationFile:c864a099f3854e24c6a2317f261d13895c1ba807From 195.110.70.55<div class="wikitext"><p>I really agree with you and I have been really annoyed since the XML became fashion and been used more and more for configuration files!</p>
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