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Re:Bento, a pythonic packaging solution for Python software by Mathnerd314 on Saturday July 03, 2010 @07:14PM (#1484715)
It seems to borrow heavily from Cabal, the Haskell packaging system: http://cournape.github.com/Bento/html/faq.html#is-bento-base...

It would be nice if they were in fact instances of the same format and not just very similar.

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Re:Bento, a pythonic packaging solution for Python software by cdavid on Tuesday July 06, 2010 @04:57PM (#1492354)
I wished I could have taken exactly the same format, but unfortunately, the cabal format was not defined (no formal grammar) when I started this, and I needed reST support for some fields, which makes it a bit difficult. This also explains why the format is not exactly YAML.
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