[ale] Ubuntu 18.04 release notes

[Pete Hardie]

YAML is whitespace sensitive?  Seems unwise

On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 7:42 PM Steve Litt via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 14:35:20 -0700
> Alex Carver via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>
> > On 2018-04-26 08:52, Steve Litt via Ale wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > I'd *love* to configure my network with YAML.
> >
> > Why???
> >
> > YAML is too sensitive to white space just like many other MLs.  Last
> > week I spent forever trying to get a couple programs to run that both
> > happen to use YAML for their configuration files.  It always choked
> > while parsing the YAML no matter what I did.  Even dumping the
> > internal state to a YAML formatted file (there was a command line
> > option provided to do this) would put out a file that could not be
> > read back in.  I gave up and configured the program entirely from the
> > command line, having to bypass config files entirely.
>
> Sounds like a bad program that used YAML poorly.
>
> Also, you're right in that YAML spacing can be confusing, especially if
> indentation is shallow or inconsistent, and of course if tabs get
> introduced accidentally.
>
> But for a good program used by a YAML aware user, YAML is a great way
> to specify what otherwise would be very complex config.
>
> SteveT
>
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