RE: [GD-General] A portable preferences library

[Richard S. <Ric...@ei...>]

Ivan-Assen said:
> If you are really opposed to using XML - after all, why would=20
> a "simple"
> preferences library need a big bad XML parser (answer: you'll=20
> likely need
> an XML parser in the game anyway...), you can play the=20
> revolutionary by using YAML:
>=20
> http://www.yaml.org

Looks like an alternative, except currently there does not seem
to be a C++ parser for it, or, perhaps more importantly[0], no
support tools. Certainly churning out a language spec for SCite
(or editor of choice) would be simple enough, but comparing this
to the enormous resources available to the XML user leaves it
with a long way to go. Which is fine by me as I'm 80% of the
way through implementing a complex data and rule based system
in C++ using XML as the interim data format and would hate to
find a better alternative at this late stage :*)

Rich

[0] Only because non-validating parsers for this kind of language
are not too hard to produce[1]
[1] And indeed, to get game-quality optimisations, I'll have to
write my own micro XML parser so we can stop using Xerces