Re: [hobbit] Future of Hobbit

[Stef Coene <stef.coene (at) docum.org>]

On Wednesday 30 January 2008, Hubbard, Greg L wrote:
> Damian Conway in "Perl Best Practices" (published by O'Reilly) says
> "Don't use XML as your configuration file format.  It may be
> human-readable, but it's almost never human-comprehensible, and the
> ratio of mark-up to content is vastly too high."  He goes on to argue
> that configuration files should use a format that is much more like what
> Henrik has implemented in the non-Big-Brother-legacy-format, and
> suggests several CPAN modules that Perl programmers can use to parse
> these formats in their programs.
>
> I fully agree with this notion -- let's keep Hobbit "XML-free"!
I recently used the ini format.  Very easy to read and change.  There is also 
a nice perl module to process the files.  I'm sure there are C libraries as 
well.


Stef