abstrakraft/gitri — Issue #4: better manifest format
Author: bollwyvl
Created: 2011-11-16 16:04:19+00:00
State: open

i am in favor of a plainer-text format for the manifest. this is an opportunity to do better than ivy/repo.

# Alternate formats

## YAML
like [skdb's](https://github.com/kanzure/skdb). the diffs are much awesomer, more hand-editable...

## YAML-RDF, N3/Turtle
very diffable (text-wise, but also [graph-wise](http://webr3.org/diff/)), searchable, and the world doesn't need another xml schema.

## BAD
though would introduce a dependencies on non-stdlib. sad. however, we should be pip installable anyway.

# Implementation
perhaps a plugin structure for manifest? the core code shouldn't be monkeying with xml/rdf anyway.