From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hartmut Goebel Subject: Re: Release! Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2017 11:18:20 +0200 Message-ID: References: <877f16z9eo.fsf@gnu.org> <87infv54m3.fsf@gnu.org> <87efqgnn7x.fsf@elephly.net> <20171006203129.526f7d09@capac> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47993) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e0lFd-0006vI-Ew for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Oct 2017 05:18:30 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e0lFa-0002gw-Aq for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Oct 2017 05:18:29 -0400 Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.9]:57421) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e0lFa-0002gP-4Y for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Oct 2017 05:18:26 -0400 Received: from frontend01.mail.m-online.net (unknown [192.168.8.182]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3y8LXF6W7Cz1rHrd for ; Sat, 7 Oct 2017 11:18:21 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (dynscan1.mnet-online.de [192.168.6.70]) by mail.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3y8LXF5XVYz1qqkv for ; Sat, 7 Oct 2017 11:18:21 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail.mnet-online.de ([192.168.8.182]) by localhost (dynscan1.mail.m-online.net [192.168.6.70]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id bCIrSEN_8Cbf for ; Sat, 7 Oct 2017 11:18:20 +0200 (CEST) Received: from hermia.goebel-consult.de (ppp-93-104-94-107.dynamic.mnet-online.de [93.104.94.107]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.mnet-online.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS for ; Sat, 7 Oct 2017 11:18:20 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.110.2] (lenashee.goebel-consult.de [192.168.110.2]) by hermia.goebel-consult.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id D81B960027 for ; Sat, 7 Oct 2017 11:18:20 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <20171006203129.526f7d09@capac> Content-Language: en-US List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: guix-devel@gnu.org Am 07.10.2017 um 01:31 schrieb David Pirotte: > so why would we 'abandon' s-exp, what would we win here? It might be interesting to *create* these files using tools written in other programming languages. And modules for creating *JSON* are available for most programming languages. (OTOH TOML[]1] could be a better format than JSON =E2=80=93 it's much lik= e =2Eini-files, but more formal specification. A scheme implementation is available [2].) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOML [2] 0f52bab3e3cfeb261110f9217c39eb03e78d026a --=20 Regards Hartmut Goebel | Hartmut Goebel | h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com | | www.crazy-compilers.com | compilers which you thought are impossible |