Re: Any estimate of YAML usage for existing programs' config files?

On Jan 6, 10:46 am, James Fisher <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've recently fallen head-over-heels in love with YAML.  Specifically, I'm
> thinking of configuration files -- I hate the non-standardization and
> slightly-different-syntax configuration files that exist for thousands of
> programs.  I've gobbled it up for my own teensy projects.
>
> But AFAIK, the usage/take-up of it seems way out of kilter with how much it
> promises and how much talk there is of it around.  I've tried to find a list
> of //significant// applications that use YAML for config.  The only ones I
> can find are:
>
> * RoR (barely worth mentioning)
> * Symfony
> * Python App Engine
>
> So, my questions: are there others?  If not, why not?  Is there a single
> example of an existing application that has made an effort to switch its
> config syntax to YAML?  Within the context of configuration files, is there
> a significant competitor to YAML with the promise of standardization?

The vast majority of Ruby projects use it for configuration, not just
ROR. But 100s if not 1000s of others.

The only close competitor in Ruby community is JSON. But it is a
distant second.

I know in Python INI is used most, but python has a good YAML
implementation, so maybe it is making head way there too.

Where we are not seeing it, unfortunately, is OS configs. But maybe
that's because there is no bash implementation?

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