What is the preferred format people here use for program config files? Json, Xml, ini, etc?

Also what libraries exist to parse the preferred format?

On Saturday, 2 August 2014 at 12:42:00 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote:
> What is the preferred format people here use for program config files? Json, Xml, ini, etc?
>
> Also what libraries exist to parse the preferred format?

for me json is nice because it is  virtually everywhere.
for most casese std.json is enough but I use vibe.d for serialisation

On Saturday, 2 August 2014 at 12:42:00 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote:
> What is the preferred format people here use for program config files? Json, Xml, ini, etc?

JSON is nice for data exchange, but I dislike it for configuration. It doesn't even support comments, or disabling sections of the file. YML is friendlier in this regard.

DUB is considering switching from JSON to SDL:

http://sdl.ikayzo.org/display/SDL/Home
http://forum.rejectedsoftware.com/groups/rejectedsoftware.dub/thread/2/

On Sunday, 3 August 2014 at 09:31:20 UTC, Marc Schütz wrote:
> On Saturday, 2 August 2014 at 12:42:00 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote:
>> What is the preferred format people here use for program config files? Json, Xml, ini, etc?
>
> JSON is nice for data exchange, but I dislike it for configuration. It doesn't even support comments, or disabling sections of the file. YML is friendlier in this regard.
>
> DUB is considering switching from JSON to SDL:
>
> http://sdl.ikayzo.org/display/SDL/Home
> http://forum.rejectedsoftware.com/groups/rejectedsoftware.dub/thread/2/

Interesting, are there D libs available to parse yaml and sdl?

On Sunday, 3 August 2014 at 10:54:10 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote:
> On Sunday, 3 August 2014 at 09:31:20 UTC, Marc Schütz wrote:
>> On Saturday, 2 August 2014 at 12:42:00 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote:
>>> What is the preferred format people here use for program config files? Json, Xml, ini, etc?
>>
>> JSON is nice for data exchange, but I dislike it for configuration. It doesn't even support comments, or disabling sections of the file. YML is friendlier in this regard.
>>
>> DUB is considering switching from JSON to SDL:
>>
>> http://sdl.ikayzo.org/display/SDL/Home
>> http://forum.rejectedsoftware.com/groups/rejectedsoftware.dub/thread/2/
>
> Interesting, are there D libs available to parse yaml and sdl?

http://code.dlang.org/packages/dyaml

On Sunday, 3 August 2014 at 11:38:47 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
> On Sunday, 3 August 2014 at 10:54:10 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote:
>> On Sunday, 3 August 2014 at 09:31:20 UTC, Marc Schütz wrote:
>>> On Saturday, 2 August 2014 at 12:42:00 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote:
>>>> What is the preferred format people here use for program config files? Json, Xml, ini, etc?
>>>
>>> JSON is nice for data exchange, but I dislike it for configuration. It doesn't even support comments, or disabling sections of the file. YML is friendlier in this regard.
>>>
>>> DUB is considering switching from JSON to SDL:
>>>
>>> http://sdl.ikayzo.org/display/SDL/Home
>>> http://forum.rejectedsoftware.com/groups/rejectedsoftware.dub/thread/2/
>>
>> Interesting, are there D libs available to parse yaml and sdl?
>
> http://code.dlang.org/packages/dyaml

Great, ta.

On Saturday, 2 August 2014 at 12:42:00 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote:
> What is the preferred format people here use for program config files? Json, Xml, ini, etc?
>
> Also what libraries exist to parse the preferred format?

Preffered one is the one a RTL(run time library) or a VCL(visual component library) uses.
I hate those using markups, like xml. ugly, hard to edit eg in notepad.
I hate ini. ini is kind of a beginner format. ini is ridiculous.

A good config file format has to
- be editable.
- be strongly used in the lang. standard library: the one used cause it's good.
- not ini. ini files = child happy to discover he can save and load settings.
- convertible: even if it's a proprietary format it must be convertible to json or xml or yaml (or ini for the children). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshalling_(computer_science).

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshalling_(computer_science) bla.
damn it.