Re: Proposal: JSON for artifact metadata instead of YAML

[Sam Thursfield <sam thursfield codethink co uk>]

On 31/10/17 12:39, Angelos Evripiotis wrote:
> I'd like to propose that we use the Python library json module for saving and
> loading artifact metadata, instead of BuildStream's _yaml module.

I am in favour of that -- I expect that the artifact metadata is mostly 
going to be consumed by scripts, and JSON makes more sense than YAML 
when optimising for machine-readability.

Sam
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