Development tracking of roadmap progress

[naturallymitchell]

How close is this to usable? I don't care about some incompleteness and API changes, since I'm making alpha software anyway. So switching formats and parsers later is no issue. But I still want to get a sense for where we're at with it.

It seems like the best available Rust parser for structured data. yaml-rust doesn't support StrictYAML chyh1990/yaml-rust#102 , and TOML has negative reviews, eg getzola/zola#317

I want to use it for configuration, log files, and content headers.

[Keats]

I want to use it for configuration, log files, and content headers.

SCL is only meant for configuration, i don't think it would make sense for logging/content header where. JSON seems to be a better for logging if you want to pass data around.

There are a few important things:

• discuss : VS = for assignments #3, Time interval type #4, variable interpolation and other potential tweaks to the spec
• Make parser format-preserving #5
• make a serde-scl crate

[naturallymitchell]

Will you possibly create the serde-scl crate before the final spec? This would give a chance to get real world test cases for discussion.

[Keats]

I'm not sure I will have the time soon but it shouldn't be too hard to do since we only want the deserialization and the parser already exists

[naturallymitchell]

@Keats any word on serde-scl?

(sorry for nudging)

[Keats]

None yet, focusing on gutenberg 0.5, then tera 1.0 and then I'll have a look at scl. It should be fairly easy for someone to write it though - the parser already exists and we only care about getting it from a file to a struct

[naturallymitchell]

@Keats any word on when you intend to revisit SCL and how much you'll be able to focus on it?

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We didn't make serde-scl, but we have rlua-scl, which still needs to be factored out: https://github.com/foundpatterns/torchbear/blob/master/src/bindings/text/scl.rs

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If you could hop on Discord, that'd be great. Rust, in general, seems to be moving that way: https://discordapp.com/invite/rust-lang . Perhaps we could organize an SCL meetup and get done within one hour through voice what would take weeks or months to do asynchronously in issues.