Open Aariq opened 2 years ago
Fair idea, but I don't think it's a high priority issue. Given the number of things that are "broken" I tend to leave the "if it's not broke, don't fix it" things alone.
Apparently YAML is much worse off than I thought, but TOML sounds like a good option. https://ruudvanasseldonk.com/2023/01/11/the-yaml-document-from-hell
Just wondering if it might improve usability to use YAML for settings rather than XML (or as an alternative option). YAML is a bit more human-readable and can be read to and written from R lists with the
yaml
package.An example settings.xml converted to YAML: