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Re:Windows Package Manager Preview by Xelbair on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @03:07PM (#23238801)
using anything white-space delimited, or as verbose as XML for configuration should be forbidden.

Preferably use something as simple as TOML, or even just plain JSON.

Indentation is pain in the ass to work with in huge files and with editors that do not support autoindent(which occasionally you have to use) - especially if the comments do not follow the indentation.

Re:Windows Package Manager Preview by yNeolh on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @04:04PM (#23239487)
As far as I know, YAML 1.2 I think, is a superset of JSON so you could still use both. But maybe they use an older version or a custom parser...