[Koha-bugs] [Bug 26790] Refactor Koha configuration (koha-conf.xml)

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=26790

--- Comment #2 from David Cook <dcook at prosentient.com.au> ---
(In reply to Julian Maurice from comment #1)
> +1 for moving Koha config out of zebra config file
> +1 for not using XML
> 
> But -1 for using YAML. I know we already use YAML
> for everything in Koha, but YAML has a lot of disadvantages

I'm not finding those links particularly persuasive. 

Using Perl's YAML module, I wasn't able to reproduce a single issue from those
links. Plus many of the proposed issues should be easily avoidable anyway. 

> One concrete problem we had in Koha recently was that some MARC field tags
> starting with 0 were parsed as octal numbers. (040 becomes 32 but 099
> remains 99)

Can you point me to a bug report for that one? That sounds very interesting. I
couldn't reproduce that problem based on the description.

> I think that this bug might be a good opportunity to consider alternatives
> (HJSON, JSON5, TOML, ...)

I've never heard of HJSON or JSON5, but I have used TOML a couple times. It was
easy to use, and the documentation is good.

It looks like libtoml-perl is available in the Debian repositories, so that
would be OK. 

I'm not particularly wedded to YAML. I'd be fine with TOML.

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