I personally find the human readability of JSON to be superior to XML in this kind of configuration scenario, but I think what I really meant to say was that switching to JSON hopefully provides them the opportunity to redesign the file format from the ground up to be more sane. My specific hopes:
1) That the new format will be more convention-over-configuration based and not have to be 100+ lines for a default project.
2) As I've mentioned in the parent post, I hope that you don't have to list individual files in the equivalent of <ItemGroup> blocks - you should instead only need to add an exceptions to whatever convention is being applied.
1) That the new format will be more convention-over-configuration based and not have to be 100+ lines for a default project.
2) As I've mentioned in the parent post, I hope that you don't have to list individual files in the equivalent of <ItemGroup> blocks - you should instead only need to add an exceptions to whatever convention is being applied.