RE: [FR-devel] Latest YAML format

[Curt Hibbs]

I like YAML a lot. I vote in favor of moving our config files to YAML.

Curt

> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden
> [mailto:address@hidden Behalf Of Rich Kilmer
> Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 1:19 PM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: [FR-devel] Latest YAML format
> 
> 
> Team,
> 
> There is a question that follows this very long email...
> 
> For those that don't know, there is the cool format for config files and
> serializing objects known as YAML (Yaml Ain't Markup Language).
> 
> http://www.yaml.org
> 
> And the Ruby library was presented by its author "Why the Lucky Stiff"
> at RubyConf.new(2002).  I really like how clean it is compared to XML
> (easy to read, edit, etc) especially for configuration files.  The
> coolest thing is that the YAML parser will read in these files and
> create Ruby objects for you (in other words, you don't use the parser
> like in XML, just classes and objects).  At the conference I downloaded
> YAML Ruby library from here:
> 
> http://yaml4r.sourceforge.net/
> 
> And built a set of plugin configuration classes:
> 
> module FreeBASE
>   class Configuration; end
>   class SubsystemConfiguration; end
>   class PluginConfiguration; end
> end
> 
> They contain the whole behavior of reading in the plugin config files
> and for starting up freebase (and all the plugin dependency stuff)
> 
> A sample config file for the Debugger is:
> 
> --- !ruby/object:FreeBASE::SubsystemConfiguration 
> name: DebuggerSubsystem
> version: 1.0
> plugins: 
> 
>   - !ruby/object:FreeBASE::PluginConfiguration 
>     name: Debugger
>     version: 1.0
>     autoload: (true)
>     require_path: plugins/Debugger/Debugger
>     startup_module: FreeRIDE::GUI::Debugger
>     start_dependencies: 
>       GuiCore: "*"
> 
>   - !ruby/object:FreeBASE::PluginConfiguration 
>     name: DebuggerRenderFox
>     version: 1.0
>     autoload: (true)
>     require_path: plugins/Debugger/Render/Fox/DebuggerRenderFox
>     startup_module: FreeRIDE::DebuggerRenderFox
>     start_dependencies: 
>       GuiRenderFox: "*"
> 
> Cool huh?
> 
> Q: Should we switch over to this format instead of XML?
> 
> If the answer is "no...let's use XML" then I will implement it in the
> Configuration class.  I would prefer to use YAML...but I want to know
> your thoughts.
> 
> -Rich
> 
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