[YLUG] Parsable Rack Diagrams

[Robert Hulme]

> Robert recommends YAML but in many ways this is the same as using XML.
I agree totally. My comment really was for three reasons:

1. I thought it would be nice to mention YAML to get some coverage for
it on the list
2. YAML > XML
3. YAML better fits Alex's real requirements

What Alex has said on IRC but not here is:
More information that just what is in what rack is required. Possibly
the data he needs to store is relational in nature. ISTM that storing
the data somehow and having a script that outputs something that
fengshui can turn in to a diagram would be a good idea.

Alex then said that a requirement is that the files have to be
'diffable', which more or less rules out using SQL (AFAIK sqlite
doesn't have a human readable diffable format). So I suggested he use
Python / Ruby / something classes to do stuff and then serialise the
instances to disk as something like YAML.

-Rob

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