On 2016-09-17 09:25, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote:
Hello,
On 2016-09-17 at 08:41:37 +0200, Joachim Durchholz wrote:
Am 17.09.2016 um 00:13 schrieb Herbert Valerio Riedel:
the prospect that a standard format like YAML would allow to reuse standard tooling/libraries for YAML seems quite weak to me;
It's not about standard tooling, it's about tools written by third parties. Tools that you didn't have the time or interest to write yourself, but which still help make your ecosystem more useful to others.
Sure, but we don't need to throw out the baby with the bathwater to accomplish that!
Oleg is currently working on a new parser for cabal.config, cabal.project & ${pkg}.cabal grammar (NB: cabal already uses one standard unified syntax for all its configuration/description files) which lends itself better to provide equivalent of ghc-exactprint (i.e. perfect roundtripping, allowing for faithful refactoring tooling). Then 3rd parties can then use this new parser as a library.
I didn't see anything in the PR about exporting that parser as a library. Do you have a reference for that? Regardless: It will only help third party code written in Haskell. Much as I like most userland software to be written in Haskell it won't help e.g. IntelliJ IDEA one whit. Regards,