Re: A common configuration format, anyone?

[Philip Ashmore <contact@philipashmore.com>]

On 15/11/12 00:15, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote:
> On 14 November 2012 15:31, Benjamin Drung<bdrung@debian.org>  wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch, den 14.11.2012, 15:32 +0400 schrieb Игорь Пашев:
> > > 2012/11/14 Philip Ashmore<contact@philipashmore.com>
> > >          simple format which, like xml, is human-readable
> > >
> > >
> > > XML is not human-readable :-)
> >
> > XML is human-readable, but in most cases ugly to write. IMO XML is not
> > human-writable.
>
> Also XML is not "diff-able" easily, which is usual for tree-like structures.
>
> In XML defence, at least it's not "write once" / "write only" format
> the way perl is ;-)
>
> Regards,
>
> Dmitrijs.
It's possible to paint a picture a pixel at a time too ;)

Philip