On Mon, 20 Jul 2020 at 19:05, Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > zimoun writes: > >> > The format of metadata (disassemble) that you propose is schemish > >> > (obviously! :-)) but we could propose something more JSON-like. > >> > >> Sure, if that helps get other people on-board, why not (though sexps > >> have lived much longer than JSON and XML together :-)). > > > > Lived much longer and still less less less used than JSON or XML alone. ;-) > > Though this is likely not a function of the format, but of the > popularity of both Javascript and Java. Well, the popularity matters to attract a broad audience and maybe get other people on-board; if it is the aim. It seems the de-facto format; even if JSON has flaws. And zillions of parsers for all the languages are floating around, which is not the case for Sexp, even if it is easier to parse. And JSON is already used in Guix, see [1] for an example. 1: https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/guix.html#Additional-Build-Options However, I am not convinced that JSON or similarly Sexp will scale well for a Tarball Heritage perspective. All the best, simon