Opinions on SMF

[John Marino]

On 8/27/2013 13:20, Petr Janda wrote:
>>>      Personally, I think smf manifests being in XML(i dislike) may be a
>>> problem with many users who
>>>      are  not used to reading and writing XML files.
>>
>>
>> That's one of the things I hated on SMF!
>> But I guess the configuration can be easily translated from XML to
>> text and vice-versa.
> 
> C'mon, XML isn't that bad :)

No, it isn't.  I don't know where all this anti-XML sentiment came from,
but it's certainly fashionable lately.

Also, really there should be a front-end tool for designing SMF
manifests, there's nothing saying it has to be written directly.  I'm
guessing there are already such tools.


> But I don't see why, SMF couldn't support other types of documents such
> as JSON or YAML.

Because JSON and YAML can't take the place of XML.  They do a minor
subset and are not suitable for SMF manifests.  Also it's work that
somebody has to do versus porting proven code.

John