<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">2016-09-16 19:14 GMT+02:00 Bardur Arantsson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spam@scientician.net" target="_blank">spam@scientician.net</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">This may be somewhat heretical, but I don't actually think we need to<br>
have a human-editable format. [...]</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Coming back to the central question (see Chris' mail): What problem do we solve by doing that? Replacing a relatively easy to read format by something unreadable by humans? That's probably the opposite of what we want...</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">[...] For beginners a simple GUI could be provided and IDEs could do their own<br>
thing.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>If somebody thinks a GUI is a good idea, we don't need to change something at all: Just write a GUI for reading/editing .cabal files.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Problem solves.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Which problem? :-) Unless we really define what we want to improve and why, the whole discussion is pointless. Is it readability by humans? Being "standard" (whatever that means)? Being easily parsable, probably by a separate library? Being more flexible by what one can express? Having more abstraction facilities in the description? I have the impression that different people in this discussion try to solve different problems.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div> S.</div></div></div></div>