I agree that yaml is not great. It's just too easy to make mistakes with a space in the wrong place.
Gary On Wed, Mar 5, 2025, 15:17 Elliotte Rusty Harold <elh...@ibiblio.org> wrote: > Please no. YAML is a utter mess full of sharp edges to hurt the > unwary. It's poorly understood, poorly specified, and poorly > documented. It's not clear there are any confomrant parsers or indeed > that the concept of conformance even makes sense for something so ill > specified. If you must have something that's not XML, then JSON is the > far superior choice, but even that would be a mistake, just not as > disastrous a one. I really don't want to see multiple formats out in > the wild. One is the right number. Anything more than that increases > complexity for no particular value. That's complexity for both users > who need to understand two formats and tools that need to support two > formats. > > On Wed, Mar 5, 2025 at 4:17 PM Guillaume Nodet <gno...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > Hey ! > > > > A while ago, I created a Hocon based POM parser [1], leveraging Maven > > 4 new capabilities to support new syntaxes for POMs. > > However, as much as that syntax seems interesting, I've been pointed > > that it's not really supported. So I never actually released it. > > But I'd still like to get out a new syntax and so I wrote one to > > support the well known YAML syntax. I thus created a small extension > > to support it [2]. > > It's much more concise wrt GAV ids and especially dependencies [3]. > > > > So I'd like to get it into the Maven project and release it. > > > > [1] https://github.com/apache/maven-hocon-extension > > [2] https://github.com/gnodet/maven-yaml-extension > > [3] > https://github.com/gnodet/maven-yaml-extension/blob/master/src/test/resources/dependency-gav.yaml#L21-L30 > > > > -- > > ------------------------ > > Guillaume Nodet > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > > > > > -- > Elliotte Rusty Harold > elh...@ibiblio.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > >
