[Discuss] Application config files
Rich Pieri
richard.pieri at gmail.com
Mon Jul 22 19:28:08 EDT 2019
On Mon, 22 Jul 2019 15:33:20 -0500
Derek Martin <invalid at pizzashack.org> wrote:
> But an .ini file (what we were discussing) IS easily stored in simple
> key/value pairs, because that's exactly what it is. We were also
> talking about Python, and it's easy enough to GUARANTEE that such a
> simple structure is printed readibly:
But we're not discussing the printing of the configuration data.
We're discussing the storing of the configuration data in configuration
files in ways that are both humanly editable *and* computer readable.
JSON does not necessarily meet these two requirements.
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Rich Pieri
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